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A Mysterious Disease Is Killing Hawaii’s Coral
Conservationists and divers alike are on edge over a mysterious disease sweeping through coral reefs in Kauai
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Primate Origins Tied to Rise of Flowering Plants
Scientists argue that grasping hands and feet, good vision and other primate adaptations emerged because the mammals plucked fruits from the ends of tree branches
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Amy Henderson: A Portrait is a Story Unfolding
Artist Everett Raymond Kinstler’s portrait of the legendary performer Christopher Plummer joins the collection as Kinstler is honored in New York City
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Astronomers Discover the Most Explosive Black Hole Yet
The newly discovered quasar spews an amount of energy equivalent to more than two million suns
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An Explosive 25th Anniversary for the Sackler with Artist Cai Guo-Qiang
The Gallery marks the occasion with an “explosion event,” lectures, performances and more
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A Real, Working Transformer Robot!
This remote-controlled car turns into a walking, missile-shooting robot
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Bacterial Life Abounds in Antarctic Lake, Cut Off From the World for 2,800 Years
From a frozen Antarctic lake, researchers pulled samples teeming with bacteria
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Madame Restell: The Abortionist of Fifth Avenue
Without benefit of medical training, Madame Restell spent 40 years as a “female physician”
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Retailers are mining personal data to learn everything about you so they can help you help yourself to their products.
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How Weather Models and Google Could Help Forecast Flu Season
Principles from the weather models that predicted Sandy a week ahead of time might be used to warn about the flu before it arrives
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A set of partial jaws hold an important place in the history of South American paleontology, but what sort of dinosaur do they represent?
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Ambient Noise Spurs Creativity
Modest ambient noise - like that found in a coffee shop or cafe - triggers the part of our brain responsible for abstract and creative thinking
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Antarctic Animals Are Dissolving
Scientists have warned about ocean acidification for years, but now it’s actually happening
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Gigantspinosaurus had enormous shoulder spikes, but what were these ornaments used for?
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Homo antecessor: Common Ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals?
A hominid that lived in Europe more than a million years ago might have given rise to Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, some anthropologists say
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Events November 27-29: Johnny Mercer, Contemporary Middle Eastern Art and Handi-hour
This week, review the musical genius of Capitol Records co-founder, examine identity in Middle Eastern art and start your stitching
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Beavers On Parachutes
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Future Classics: Readers of 1936 Predict Which Authors Will Endure
Find out which famous writers didn’t make the top ten in this poll
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Stegosaurus is immediately recognizable for its prominent plates, but why did these structures actually evolve?
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A Pack of Wolves Turned Up in Berlin For the First Time in 100 Years
Naturalists in Berlin celebrate over news: farmers spotted a pack of wolves in a village 15 miles south of Berlin, living in deserted former Soviet camp
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