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In Attempt to Contact Intelligent Life, Group Sends Musical Signal Toward Planet GJ 273b
Though the chances are slim, the team hopes this latest transmission is just the first of many
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Scientists Search for the Most Dangerous Places to Be a Shark
In a bid to stop the populations from dwindling, scientists are turning to big data
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Leonid Meteor Shower Will Streak Through Skies This Weekend
Expect 10 to 25 shooting stars per hour as the planet passes through the debris of comet Tempel-Tuttle
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U.S. Hate Crimes Ticked Upward in 2016
The latest FBI stats show a 4.6 percent rise, but crimes may be underreported by a factor of 50
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Five Things To Know About Liliʻuokalani, the Last Queen of Hawaiʻi
The queen, who was deposed by a coup led by American sugar planters, died more than 100 years ago, but is by no means forgotten
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Take in the Surreal Beauty of Jupiter in These Incredible New Images
NASA released the raw data earlier this week, allowing the public to process the beautiful images
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Syria Joins the Paris Agreement—the U.S. Now Stands Alone in Opposition
The announcement comes on the heels of Nicaragua agreeing to the accords
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Barnes Foundation Launches Digital Gallery of Its Amazing Art Collection
Historically infamous for being inaccessible to the public, the foundation has now published images of almost half of its collection online
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Critically Endangered Vaquita Porpoise Dies After Capture in Latest Rescue Effort
Conservationists are attemping a risky last-ditch plan to move the remaining creatures to a sanctuary in the Gulf of California
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Hundreds of Sea Turtles Found Dead Off the Coast of El Salvador
Authorities aren’t sure what caused the die-off, but a prime suspect is a toxic algal bloom
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Brazil Begins Effort to Plant 73 Million Trees in the Amazon
The experiment in reforestation involves spreading native seeds instead of planting saplings
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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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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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Growing Ice Cracks Force Shutdown of Antarctic Research Station
The British Antarctic Survey’s Halley VI research station will close for the second year due to cracking of the ice
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Understanding the Doping Controversy That’s Hit Sled Dog Racing
Four-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey’s dogs tested positive for banned substances, but Seavey claims it was sabotage
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In Emotional Homecoming, Smithsonian Repatriates 24 Sets of Human Remains
Collected by an anthropologist in 1931, the National Museum of Natural History returned the bones to the village of Igiugig
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Thirty-Three Migratory Species Get New Protections
Among the newly protected creatures are lions, chimpanzees, giraffes and whale sharks
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Pablo Neruda Did Not Die of Cancer, Raising the Possibility He Was Murdered
The Nobel-prize winning Chilean poet died 2 weeks after the brutal Pinochet regime took power in his country
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Einstein’s Maxims on Life Fetch $1.8 Million at Auction
The notes were given as a tip to a Tokyo bellboy in 1922
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