Little Foot's shoulders hint at how a human-chimp common ancestor climbed (May 2021)

Lightning may be an important source of air-cleaning chemicals (Apr 2021)

Climate change may have changed the direction of the North Pole’s drift (Apr 2021)

The thickness of lead’s neutron ‘skin’ has been precisely measured (Apr 2021)

Mysterious ‘yellowballs’ littering the Milky Way are clusters of newborn stars (Apr 2021)

Experts predict U.S. COVID-19 cases will dip in summer but surge in winter (Apr 2021)

A new technique could make some plastic trash compostable at home (Apr 2021)

Earth sweeps up 5,200 tons of extraterrestrial dust each year (Apr 2021)

The P.1 coronavirus variant is twice as transmissible as earlier strains (Apr 2021)

How researchers can keep birds safe as U.S. wind farms expand (Apr 2021)

Yawning helps lions synchronize their groups' movements (Apr 2021)

Newly made laser-cooled antimatter could test foundations of modern physics (Apr 2021)

The dinosaur-killing asteroid impact radically altered Earth's tropical forests (Apr 2021)

A toxin behind mysterious eagle die-offs may have finally been found (Mar 2021)

Atomic clocks take a step toward redefining the second (Mar 2021)

AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine isn't tied to blood clots, experts say (Mar 2021)

A gargantuan supernova remnant looks 40 times as big as the full moon (Mar 2021)

Phosphorus for Earth’s earliest life may have been forged by lightning (Mar 2021)

Some COVID-19 survivors face another foe: PTSD (Mar 2021)

A magnetic trap captures elusive ultracold plasma (Mar 2021)

To understand how ‘night-shining’ clouds form, scientists made one themselves (Mar 2021)

Most pro athletes who got COVID-19 didn’t develop heart inflammation (Mar 2021)

‘Green’ burials are slowly gaining ground among environmentalists (Mar 2021)

An ancient dog fossil helps trace humans’ path into the Americas (Mar 2021)

Protons’ antimatter is even more lopsided than we thought (Feb 2021)

Color-coded radar maps reveal a patchwork of California wildfire destruction (Feb 2021)

A magnetic field reversal 42,000 years ago may have contributed to mass extinctions (Feb 2021)

The first black hole ever discovered is more massive than previously thought (Feb 2021)

Some Neandertal genes in people today may protect against severe COVID-19 (Feb 2021)

Pfizer’s vaccine appears to reduce coronavirus transmission (Feb 2021)

A drop in CFC emissions puts the hole in the ozone layer back on track to closing (Feb 2021)

Fossil mimics may be more common in ancient rocks than actual fossils (Feb 2021)

‘Designer molecules’ could create tailor-made quantum devices (Feb 2021)

A new chameleon species may be the world’s tiniest reptile (Feb 2021)

An upwelling of rock beneath the Atlantic may drive continents apart (Feb 2021)

The Milky Way’s newfound high-energy glow hints at the secrets of cosmic rays (Feb 2021)

Ship exhaust studies overestimate cooling from pollution-altered clouds (Feb 2021)

Diabetes during pregnancy is tied to heart trouble later in life (Feb 2021)

Diamond holds up at pressures more than five times those in Earth’s core (Jan 2021)

Astronomers spotted a rare galaxy shutting down star formation (Jan 2021)

Some electric eels coordinate attacks to zap their prey (Jan 2021)

2020 and 2016 tie for the hottest years on record (Jan 2021)

Drones could help create a quantum internet (Jan 2021)

Newborn megalodon sharks were larger than most adult humans (Jan 2021)

Reawakened Yellowstone geyser isn’t a sign of imminent explosion (Jan 2021)

Some identical twins don’t have identical DNA (Jan 2021)

This weird chemical bond acts like a mash-up of hydrogen and covalent bonds (Jan 2021)

Zinc-air batteries are typically single-use. A new design could change that (Jan 2021)

These spiders may sew leaves into fake shelters to lure frogs to their doom (Jan 2021)