a1 A spider monkey’s remains tell a story of ancient diplomacy in the Americas A sacrificed spider monkey is shedding new light on an …
a1 Josep Cornella breaks boundaries to make new and better catalysts Josep Cornella doesn’t deal in absolutes. While chemist…
a1 Marcos Simões-Costa asks how cells in the embryo get their identities Growing up in Brazil, Marcos Simões-Costa often visited…
a1 Mangrove forests expand and contract with a lunar cycle The glossy leaves and branching roots of mangroves are …
a1 Here’s how olivine may trigger deep earthquakes Cocooned within the bowels of the Earth, one mineral’s …
a1 Looking for a job? Lean more on weak ties than strong relationships The key to landing your dream job could be connecting w…
a1 Saturn’s rings and tilt might have come from one missing moon A single, doomed moon could clear up a couple of myster…
a1 The oldest known surgical amputation occurred 31,000 years ago A child who lived on the Indonesian island of Borneo ar…
a1 How mythology could help demystify dog domestication In Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog, a short story by Kurt Vonne…
a1 A coral pollution study unexpectedly helped explain Hurricane Maria’s fury Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico early …
a1 Meet the fungal friends and foes that surround us When it comes to hoisting water, plants are real power …
a1 Indigenous Americans ruled democratically long before the U.S. did On sunny summer days, powerboats pulling water-skiers z…
b2 50 years ago, scientists hoped freezing donor organs would boost transplants If whole organs could be frozen and stored … surgeons w…
b2 A new dark matter experiment quashed earlier hints of new particles Potential hints of weird new particles in a dark matter…
b2 These huntsman spiders do something weird: live together as a big, happy family How descendants of cannibals evolved abilities to share…
a1 Nobel laureate foresees mind-expanding future of physics A century from now, when biologists are playing games o…
b2 Do gophers farm roots? It’s not as clear as viral articles claim Pocket gophers certainly don’t qualify as card-carrying…
a1 This pitcher plant species sets its deathtraps underground Biologist Martin Dančák didn’t set out to find a plant …
