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Who'd miss a chance to party with Stephen?
science

When Stephen Hawking Threw a Cocktail Party for Time Travelers

No one showed up.
Anne Ewbank March 14, 2018
A Hubbard Brook ice storm experiment.
forests

The Experimental Forest Where Scientists First Recognized Acid Rain

A patch of New Hampshire woods has served as a living laboratory since 1955.
James Gaines March 13, 2018
Isaac Newton.
science

Sold: Isaac Newton's Notes on the Philosopher's Stone

The famous physicist's interest in alchemy was hidden until the 1930s.
Sarah Laskow March 13, 2018
Sumatran cascade tadpole with a suction belly.
science

Found: A New Frog Species Born With Suction-Cup Bellies

Tadpoles with "belly suckers" are wriggling around Sumatra.
Christina Ayele Djossa March 12, 2018
Millions of Europeans now have a fail-safe reason for why they were up to six minutes late.
science

Millions of European Clocks Are Running Up to 6 Minutes Slow

How tensions between Kosovo and Serbia caused a wrinkle in time.
Natasha Frost March 12, 2018
Surtsey Island, just 16 days after the first eruption in November 1963.
islands

This Tiny Volcanic Island Is the Ultimate Natural Laboratory

Only careful, highly trained scientists ever set foot on Iceland's Surtsey.
Kelsey Kennedy March 7, 2018
These anemones change their venom over the course of their lives.
poison

A Sea Anemone's Venom Can Change Over the Course of Its Life

Shifts in age and environment can alter toxins.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 7, 2018
The GIRI machine grinds a sample beneath a rapidly spinning, diamond-tipped wheel.
science

How Geologists Peer Inside a Rock

After they found prehistoric fossils in the Canadian Rockies, researchers pulverized them to make 3D reconstructions.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 6, 2018
The fairy lantern plant called Thismia neptunis was all but lost.
science

Found: A Tropical Plant Last Spotted Over 150 Years Ago

Thismia neptunis is back, and its alien looks were worth the wait.
Christina Ayele Djossa March 6, 2018
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Nervous System of 'Harriet Cole'

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
The new tardigrade (its head is on the left).
science

A New Species of Tardigrade Has Been Found in a Japanese Parking Lot

Greetings, Macrobiotus shonaicus!
Natasha Frost March 1, 2018
The silicon skeleton of a glass sponge.
science

A 10-Foot Long, 11,000-Year-Old Sponge Skeleton Has a Hidden Use

The "sponge record" can tell scientists about the climate of the past.
Sarah Laskow March 1, 2018
Hannah Woolley, depicted in the title page of <em>The Gentlewoman's Companion</em>.
science

How 17th-Century Women Replicated the Natural World on the Table

Inventive chefs made hedgehog pudding and creamy artificial snow.
Samantha Snively February 28, 2018
A group of bonobos.
science

The Common Language of Gesture Between Bonobos and Chimps

If a bonobo presented you its arm, would you know what it meant?
Natasha Frost February 27, 2018
Flowers adorn the cemetery.
San Antonio, Texas

Memorial Park at UT Health Science Center

The cremains of those who donated their bodies to science are buried in a tiny cemetery behind the building.
The ladder shape composed of red horizontal and vertical lines (center left) dates to older than 64,000 years and was made by Neanderthals.
science

The Earliest European Cave Art Was Made by Neanderthals

A new study suggests that they had the capacity for symbolic behavior.
Natasha Frost February 23, 2018
This plate from <em>Birds of America</em> depicts the American Flamingo.
ornithology collections

The Centuries-Old Mystery of How Florida Got Its Flamingos

How did these statuesque birds get to the peninsula, and where did they go?
Jessica Leigh Hester February 22, 2018
Constructing the nuclear reactor.
science

America's Secret Ice Base Won't Stay Frozen Forever

Climate change is turning a Cold War project into an environmental hazard.
Sarah Laskow February 22, 2018