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Can Snow Machines Save Swiss Glaciers?
As many as 4,000 could be deployed to insulate ice on Morteratsch
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Why New York Schoolchildren Want to Grow a Billion Oysters
It’s a grand attempt to restore a ravaged estuary
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Endangered Red Wolf Pups Born in Durham
The six puppies are the first born at Museum of Life and Science in 15 years, part of a program to save the wolves which only number about 300
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Fearing a Smallpox Epidemic, Civil War Troops Tried to Self-Vaccinate
People knew that inoculation could prevent you from catching smallpox. It was how Civil War soldiers did it that caused problems
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Scientists Make Sturdy Bricks From Mars-Like Soils
Their findings may be a step forward in the mission to build structures on the Red Planet
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Why Mother and Baby Humpback Whales Whisper to One Another
The quiet communication helps them avoid killer whales and randy male humpbacks
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Scientists Extract DNA From Ancient Humans Out of Cave Dirt
The new technique promises to transform the study of the hominid family tree
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The Secret Behind Bioluminescent Mushrooms’ Magic Glow
Scientists use chemistry to account for an astonishing phenomenon
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Dog Genome Project Reveals Secrets of Canine Family Tree
Researchers have been barking up the same tree for over 20 years
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Cassini Sends Back First Images From Its Saturn Dives
The stream of raw images include new pictures of the strange hexagonal storm swirling around its north pole
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The spacecraft is out of contact as it begins a series of dramatic orbits between Saturn and its rings
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“The Scream” Might Have Been Inspired By a Rare Type of Cloud
Did mother-of-pearl clouds stoke a painter’s angst?
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Remarkable New Evidence for Human Activity in North America 130,000 Years Ago
Researchers say prehistoric mastodon bones bear human-made markings
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This Caterpillar Can Eat Plastic
The find could lead to new techniques for breaking down our ever-growing plastic waste
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Time-Lapse Video Captures the Breathtaking Glow of Hawaii’s Night Sky
Skyglow allows you to revel in an increasingly rare sight: a starry night
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Scientists Didn’t Believe in Meteorites Until 1803
The l’Aigle meteorite fall involved more than 3,000 pieces of rock and numerous witnesses, and it changed everything
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The “Hobbits” Could Be Much Older Than Once Thought
The Flores hobbits’ ancestor may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than previously thought
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Hundreds of Thousands of Babies Will Receive World’s First Malaria Vaccine
The pilot program will focus on Kenya, Ghana and Malawi—countries at the center of the global malaria crisis
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Meet the Successor to Hubble That Will Peer Through Time
NASA’s next giant space telescope is due to launch next year
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Astronaut Peggy Whitson Breaks NASA Record for Most Days in Space
She has spent 534 cumulative days (and counting) in orbit
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