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Science

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Curses! For Medicinal Use Only

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Did Dinosaurs Roar?

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Tyrannosaurus: Better Than a Guard Dog

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Picture of the Week—Starfish

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Two “Sea Monsters” for the Price of One

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Tiny Lungless Salamander Discovered in Georgia

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“Dakota” the Hadrosaur Makes Her Debut

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Climate Change in Your Backyard

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What Color Was That Moa?

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The Dinosaurs of Ice Age 3

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The New Flu? They’re On It

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Meet Banjo, Matilda and Clancy: Three New Dinosaurs From Australia

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Picture of the Week—Fireworks

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Will There Ever Be a Jurassic Park IV?

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A New Kind of Black Hole

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Lion Prides and Street Gangs

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Save the Laramie Dinosaurs!

The ocean's boundless energy (von Jouanne near Oregon's Otter Rock Beach) could furnish up to 6.5 percent of U.S. electricity.

Catching a Wave, Powering an Electrical Grid?

Electrical engineer Annette von Jouanne is pioneering an ingenious way to generate clean, renewable electricity from the sea

Conventional wisdom held that only a huge stretch of DNA could function as a gene. The discovery of an overlooked genetic entity upends that view. Croce "was stunned."

High Hopes for a New Kind of Gene

Scientists believe that microRNA may lead to breakthroughs in diagnosing and treating cancer

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Whale of a comeback, dancing cockatoos, sticky bees, and waltzing pond scum

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