Earth’s journey through the Milky Way might have helped create the planet’s first continents
Vibrations applied to replacements for lost teeth travel well through jawbones to the inner ear, researchers report in the September Journal of the Acoustical
Once upon a time, Spain’s hilltop Alhambra palace glittered with gold
A tool kit for snapping together molecules like Lego building blocks has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry
A ground-penetrating eye in the sky has helped to rehydrate an ancient southern Mesopotamian city, tagging it as what amounted to a Venice of the Fertile Cres
In a football game on September 25, Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa got the pass off but he got knocked down
The massive Tonga eruption generated a set of planet-circling tsunamis that may have started out as a single mound of water roughly the height of the Statue o
Tests of quantum weirdness and its potential real-world applications have been recognized with the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics
There’s nothing like a big mass extinction to open up ecological niches and clear out the competition, accelerating evolution for some lucky survivors
In July 2017, after weeks of anticipation, a massive iceberg about the size of Delaware split from the Antarctic Peninsula (SN: 7/12/17)
For some ant queens, the secret to long life might be a self-produced insulin blocker
Good news for late bloomers: Planets may have millions of years more time to arise around most stars than previously thought
Inches from his paws, frenzied, spawning carp writhed in the shallow water along a reservoir’s shore
Establishing a new field of science to answer the question of what makes humans unique from our extinct relatives has earned Svante Pääbo the Nobel Prize in
Small-bodied, long-armed apes called gibbons swing rapidly through the trees, far outpacing scientists’ attempts to decipher these creatures’ evolutionary
The Milky Way left its “poor old heart” in and around the constellation Sagittarius, astronomers report
The first image of a black hole may conceal treasure — but physicists disagree about whether it’s been found
Humanity has, for the first time, purposely moved a celestial object
At the start of another school year, I’ve been thinking about the differences between 2021 and 2022
In the upper reaches of the Skykomish River in Washington state, a pioneering team of civil engineers is keeping things cool
