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“Extinct” Variety of Tree Rediscovered at Queen’s Palace in Scotland
Two Wentworth elms identified at Holyroodhouse escaped Dutch elm disease, which destroyed millions of other trees
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Have Humans Hit Their Maximum Lifespan?
Researchers say 115 years old is the ceiling for most of us—with a few outliers able to live a bit longer
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October Skies Herald Meteor Showers Throughout the Month
The Draconid and Orionid meteor showers will streak across night skies this month
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How the Reno Gang Launched the Era of American Train Robberies
150 years ago today, the first-ever train robbery took place in Indiana, setting off decades of shoot outs and bloodshed
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Conservationists Butt Heads With U.S. Government Over Red Wolf Repopulation Program
A judge recently ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service to let the endangered wolves stay where they are
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Cod May Have Regional “Accents” That Could Spawn Trouble When Breeding
Recording fish communication could help scientists learn more about the impact of underwater noise pollution
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Channel Edward Hopper With a Night in His Bedroom
Stay in the childhood home of one of history’s greatest painters
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This Art Project Breathes New Life Into Blighted Buildings
Breathing Lights will illuminate hundreds of abandoned structures throughout New York
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Tour the World’s Biggest Manmade Cave in China
The 816 Nuclear Plant stands as a reminder of a paranoid past
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Big Advancements in Ultra-Tiny Machines
The winning trio created the building blocks of nanomachines that have the potential to revolutionize many fields of science and industry
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Botswana Unexpectedly Reverses Course on Ivory Trade
The southern African nation now supports protection for the animals instead of limited sales of ivory
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$25.5 Million Raphael Painting Discovered in Scottish Manor House
An art historian working for a BBC television show recognized a painting in a dark corner as the work of the Renaissance master
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Gold Rings Found in Warrior’s Tomb Connect Two Ancient Greek Cultures
Analysis of four gold rings and some 2,000 other recently uncovered objects points to the exchange of ideas and goods between two ancient peoples
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Here’s What Scientists Found in Hawaii’s Mysterious “Twilight Zone”
Deep coral reefs reveal their secrets in a study two decades in the making
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Nobel Physics Prize Goes to Exploration of Exotic Matter, Explained in Bagels
Winners probed superconductors and superfluids, launching the ongoing hunt for strange phases of matter
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Researchers Just Discovered One of the Largest Dinosaur Footprints Ever Found
Uncovered in the Gobi desert, the tracks of the titanosaur show that the beast certainly lived up to its name
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Adiós, Toughie: The Last Known Rabb’s Fringe-Limbed Tree Frog Dies in Atlanta
Since his discovery in 2005, Toughie the frog has been the face of amphibian extinction
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Campsite Places Humans in Argentina 14,000 Years Ago
Excavations at the site Arroyo Seco 2 include stone tools and evidence that humans were hunting giant sloths, giant armadillos and extinct horse species
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