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Human history in your face
When you look in a mirror, the face you see is the result of millions of years of human evolution. Here's an interview with an expert discussing how and why our modern human faces evolved to look as they do today.
April 23, 2019
Watch for moon, Jupiter, Lyrid meteors
That bright moon in the sky before sunup will drown most of the ongoing Lyrid meteor shower from view. But the moon offers its own delights, sweeping past Jupiter in the next few mornings.
April 21, 2019
A reptile expert takes your burning dragon questions
As Game of Thrones returns for its final season, a herpetologist addresses some highly fictional dragon scenarios using real science.
April 13, 2019
Here’s a solar system being born
Astronomers have spied 2 rings of dust around a young star, DM Tau. The image shows what our own solar system might have looked like as its planets were forming, 4.6 billion years ago.
March 28, 2019
What happened before the Big Bang?
How can we get an inkling of what existed before our universe began? Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggest a way.
March 27, 2019
How aspen leaves could save Mars rovers
Aspen trees - fondly called Quakies by some - have trembling, quivering leaves. Now those leaves have inspired an energy-harvesting mechanism that might rescue dust-laden rovers on Mars.
March 22, 2019
Astronomers discover 83 more supermassive black holes
Astronomers used a cutting-edge camera mounted on one of the world's largest telescopes to discover 83 new quasars - powered by central, supermassive black holes - in the very early universe.
March 18, 2019
How the moon got its sunburn
Every object, planet or person traveling through space has to contend with the sun's damaging radiation - and the moon has the scars to prove it.
March 7, 2019
Black hole found near Milky Way’s heart
It's not supermassive, but only an intermediate-mass black hole, near the center of the Milky Way. It might be one of over 100 million quiet black holes lurking unseen in our galaxy.
March 6, 2019
Found: World’s biggest bee
Last seen in 1981 and thought lost to science, Wallace's giant bee has been rediscovered in the forests of Indonesia.
March 4, 2019
