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The Ozone Hole Is the Smallest It’s Been in 30 Years—But We Can’t Take Credit
Warming in the stratosphere has kept away ozone-killing chemicals, reducing annual thinning for the last two years
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Most Antiquities Sold Online Are Fake or Illegal
Social media and ISIS have combined to flood the web with thousands of questionable artifacts
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Clues for Earthquake Prediction May Be Hiding in Earth’s Molten Core
Researchers propose that irregularities in the core’s rotation could spawn clusters of major quakes
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Harriet Tubman’s Canadian Church Is Struggling to Survive
The Salem Chapel in St. Catharines, Ontario, is in desperate need of repairs
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The Poetic Tale of Literary Outlaw Black Bart
Stagecoach robber Charles Bole took the inspiration for his pseudonym from pulp fiction
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Can a Sandwich Be Intellectual Property?
This is the story of a patent war over PB&J
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Corals Seem to Like the “Taste” of Plastic
Corals are attracted to the material not for its coloring, but for one of its many chemicals
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Watch the Winners of the 2017 Dance Your Ph.D. Competition
From sea stars to mathematical braids, scientists translate their work into hot moves and killer choreography
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This Sea Slug Has a Crafty Way of Getting Super-Sized Meals
These colorful creatures prefer to feast on prey that has just eaten
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Stopping the Aging Process May Be Mathematically Impossible
Researchers find that removing low-functioning cells can slow aging—but allows cancer cells to proliferate
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Noisy Colonies Help Bat Babies Learn Different Dialects
A new study has found that baby bats mimic the vocalizations that surround them
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Four-Horned Giraffe Ancestor Unearthed in Spain
The fossil is an unusually complete individual of an ancient giraffid species
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Envisioning Vermeer, Master of Genre Painting, at the National Gallery of Art
Exhibition explores the Dutch artist’s connections with his contemporaries
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Storm Ophelia Unearthed an Ancient Skeleton in Ireland
Some of the skeleton’s skin was still preserved
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What Does Post-9/11 Art Mean? Imperial War Museum Explores the Question in ‘Age of Terror’
Works by Ai Weiwei, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Coco Fusco respond to contemporary violence and conflict
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Why Saudi Arabia Giving a Robot Citizenship Is Firing People Up
Saudi Arabia’s newest citizen is a robot named Sophia and she already has more rights than human women who live in the country
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Archaeologists Date Pre-Hispanic Puerto Rican Rock Art for the First Time
A new analysis looks at the thousands of images found in caves on Mona Island, a spiritual hub for the Taino culture
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Jupiter’s Auroras Are Surprisingly Out of Sync
X-ray bursts from the poles are expected to line up, but the south is regular while the north produces haphazard bursts
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Australia Will Ban Climbing Uluru, a Sacred Indigenous Site, in 2019
The long-awaited move honors Anangu beliefs, which hold that ancestral beings reside inside the rock
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