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Eleanor Imster
Oldest fossils of our species
Researchers have uncovered 300,000 year-old fossil bones of Homo sapiens in Morocco, the oldest reliably-dated fossil evidence of our species yet.
June 14, 2017
Video: Greenland’s thinning ice
The ice sheets are melting from both above and below, say scientists.
June 13, 2017
Milky Way over Mount Abu Observatory
Nikunj Rawal captured the Milky Way over India's Mount Abu Observatory on June 1.
June 9, 2017
A planet hotter than most stars
Astronomers have discovered a Jupiter-like world hotter than most stars. The planet has a year only 1.5 days long and might have a tail like a comet.
June 6, 2017
Your immune system in space
New video from NASA about studies looking at the effects of space travel on the human body's immune system.
June 3, 2017
Nature’s red, white, and blue
Memorial Day weekend is ahead here in the U.S. Have a happy one! Photo by Marcia White Bower.
May 25, 2017
Top 10 new species 2017
This year's list includes a spider and an ant with names drawn from popular books, a pink katydid and an omnivorous rat.
May 24, 2017
Cape Cod Milky Way
Manish Mamtani captured this image at Salt Pond on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. "Happy to be back chasing the Milky Way," he said.
May 24, 2017
2nd-warmest April and year-to-date
And, at both the poles, sea ice extents were at or near record low levels, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
May 22, 2017
Humans and pufferfish share teeth genes
Our teeth evolved from the same genes that make the bizarre beaked teeth of the pufferfish, according to new research.
May 18, 2017
