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Decline of Arctic’s thickest sea ice
The Arctic's multi-year sea ice - ice that survives the summer melt - is weaker and there's less of it. Satellite images show the difference between 1984 and now.
November 8, 2016
Mount Hekla was called Gateway to Hell
Mount Hekla is Iceland’s 3rd most active volcano. A large eruption in 1104 earned it the moniker Gateway to Hell. Is Mount Hekla overdue for another eruption?
November 1, 2016
Science fights to control fire ants
Thinking of the ant colony as a superorganism, entomologist Patricia Pietrantonio is searching for the master regulator genes that may help control them.
October 30, 2016
6.6-magnitude earthquake rocks Italy
Felt in Rome, it's the strongest earthquake to hit Italy in 36 years and the largest in an on-going sequence of damaging earthquakes in Italy in 2016.
October 30, 2016
Huge new Antarctic marine reserve
The new Antarctic safe zone in the Ross Sea will encompass 600 thousand square miles (1.5 million square km) and be the largest marine protected area in the world.
October 28, 2016
2nd massive ice avalanche in Tibet
"Even one of these gigantic glacier avalanches is very unusual. Two within close geographical and temporal vicinity is, to our best knowledge, unprecedented."
October 27, 2016
Bees can learn to pull strings for food
Learning to pull strings for food is often used to test the intelligence of apes and birds. Turns out, bees can learn it too, and pass the skill on to other bees.
October 26, 2016
Tiny tarsier is our distant cousin
This little guy looks like a big-eyed mouse, but a new genetic analysis puts tarsiers on the branch of the primate evolutionary tree that leads to great apes and humans.
October 21, 2016
What did dinosaurs sound like?
The discovery of the fossil vocal organ of an ancient Antarctic bird suggests that dinosaurs couldn't sing, but maybe honked.
October 18, 2016
The sound of climate change
Two scientists have set the CO2 record at Mauna Loa - world’s longest-running measure of atmospheric carbon dioxide - to music.
October 17, 2016
