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One of America’s First Female Pediatricians Saved Lives for 74 Years
Dr. Leila Denmark lived to be 114, and practiced medicine for three quarters of a century
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NASA Releases Spectacular New Snapshots of Saturn’s Rings
Millions of moonlets appear to be tucked inside the debris that famously circles the planet
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Museum Displays the Weasel that Brought Down Particle Physics
A stone marten that disrupted the Large Hadron Collider in November goes on display in Rotterdam in an exhibit about human-animal mishaps
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Bag-Like, Big-Mouthed Sea Creature Could Be Earliest Human Ancestor
This minute wriggly sea blob could represent some of the earliest steps along the path of evolution
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This 100-Million-Year-Old Insect Trapped in Amber Defines New Order
These now-extinct creatures are thought to have been able to secrete a chemical repellant and rotate their heads 180 degrees
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Scotch Tape Can Create X-Rays, and More You Didn’t Know About The Sticky Stuff
People have used it to repair everything from curtains to ceilings
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Underwater Images Give First Glimpse of Newly Discovered Brazilian Reef
The Amazon Reef once shocked scientists. Now, for the first time, we know what it looks like
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Humans Threaten Over 100 Precious Natural Heritage Sites
Forest loss and humans’ footprint are endangering the very sites humans want to preserve
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Did an Earthquake Make Mount Everest Shorter? New Expedition Aims to Find Out
India and Nepal both plan to determine if the 2015 earthquake that devastated Nepal caused the world’s highest peak to lose an inch
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Human-Pig Chimeras Created for the First Time
The hybrid embryos are the first step in interspecies organ transplants
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Check Out Breathtaking Images From NOAA’s Newest Satellite
In a word: wow
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Robo-Dermatologist Diagnoses Skin Cancer With Expert Accuracy
A neural network can recognize and categorize skin lesions as well as MDs and may lead to a cancer-screening mobile app
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One of These Five Finalists Could Make It to the Moon in 2017
The clock is ticking for a trip to the moon and a $20 million prize
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Australian Zoo Calls for Public Help Collecting One of the World’s Deadliest Spiders
With antivenin in short supply and funnel-web spider activity higher than average, Reptile Park needs a hand
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Ancient Asteroid Collision Is Still Raining Space Rocks Down on Earth
A new study shows that today’s meteorites considerably differ from those of the ancient past
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More Women Die of Cervical Cancer Than Previously Thought
Past studies significantly underestimated cervical cancer deaths—and racial disparities
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Why Food Experts Are Warning Not to Burn Your Toast
Is it time to bid brown toast farewell?
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Did Neanderthals Like Pretty Rocks?
An unusual rock in a cave inhabited by Neanderthals in Croatia suggests the hominids may have picked up interesting stones
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Scientists Capture a “Sonic Boom” of Light
A new, ultra-fast camera recorded the phenomenon for the first time
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The First Non-Browning GMO Apples Slated to Hit Shelves Next Month
The new Arctic apples take weeks (rather than minutes) to turn brown
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