All Science
- Red Planet rover sent Earth photo over
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has sent its first photo of Earth, from 99 million miles away, after a month of exciting milestones.
Salmon are born with a migration route pre-installed, say scientistsNew research shows that juvenile Chinook salmon orient themselves toward the Earth's magnetic field as it exists in their oceanic feeding grounds.
What makes a pretty pigeon? Scientists identify genes for feather colors.A new study sheds light on the mutations that control the color variations among rock pigeons.
Most ocean havens for fish aren't. Researchers ID ways to do better.A comprehensive look at 87 marine-protected areas, set up to protect fish populations, finds that more than half the time the ocean havens make no difference. But researchers identify five factors that seem key to improvement.
Scientists unlock a secret of Chinook salmon's uncanny GPSScientists have confirmed that ocean salmon can navigate by sensing the Earth’s magnetic field, which helps them navigate across thousands of miles of water without getting lost.
Our universe was slower to warm up than previously thought, say scientistsBlack holes near stars took longer to heat the cosmos than scientists once thought, new research finds.
Astronomers spot humongous, wobbly, speedy, gassy planetKepler-413b, a bizarre planet found by NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has erratic weather conditions and wobbles a lot. It has an orbit of precession that is about 10,000 times faster than that of the Earth.
Woolly rhinoceroses and woolly mammoths ate forbs, say scientistsWoolly rhinos and mammoths ate a large helping of forbs, says a study of ancient Arctic permafrost samples.
Holy Missing Link, Batman! Ancient bat lineage unearthed in Egypt.The sucker-footed bats of Madagascar have finally found an ancestor, in an Egyptian excavation site. Five little jawbones offer big clues about where bats originated, and how they migrated across ancient continents.
Bill Nye versus Ken Ham: Who won?Bill Nye debates Ken Ham: Post-debate analyses and polls praised the 'Science Guy' Bill Nye in his debate against Creation Museum president Ken Ham. But some caution that the act of debating Ham lent credence to pseudoscience.
Humongous Burmese Python shot, killed in FloridaAn 18.2-foot-long female Burmese python weighing some 150 pounds was found wandering in the wilds of Florida. Considered an invasive species, these ambush hunters are native to Southeast Asia.
Cretaceous 'Pompeii' left behind exquisitely preserved fossils, say scientistsA lakebed in China contains a collection of very well-preserved fossils of dinosaurs and mammals, which scientists say are the product of pyroclastic flows that doomed the Roman villages of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD.
- How ancient lethal volcanic gas left a gift for paleontologists
Deadly pyroclastic flows from volcanic eruptions 130 million years ago helped exquisitely preserve the creatures of northeastern China's Jehol Biota.
Yeeeehaw! Mars Rover Curiosity considering jumping sand dune.NASA's Curiosity rover is eyeing a three-foot-tall sand dune, an ambitious climb for the SUV-sized rover. Despite the size of the climb, NASA doesn't expect the rover to actually catch air on this maneuver.
Glacier that sank the Titanic is really on the move, say scientistsJakobshavn Glacier has bagged the tile of Greenland's Fastest Glacier in Greenland: In the summer of 2012 it reached a record speed of over 150 feet per day.
Dead dolphins: Peru's beaches littered with hundreds of dead dolphins – againDead dolphins: More than 400 dead dolphins were found in northern Peru in January. In 2012, more than 870 dead dolphins were found in the same area, and the cause of death was never determined.
Winter storm Nika: Second in a one-two winter punch will sock much of USWinter storm Nika will affect weather from Colorado to Maine on Wednesday, on the heels of a Monday storm that dumped several inches of wet, heavy snow on the eastern US.
Soon to orbit Earth: the coldest air in the universeNASA's tiny Cold Atom Lab will allow atomic physicists to study the behavior of matter at one ten-billionth of a degree above absolute zero.
Abandoned pyramid turns out to be a 4,600-year-old wonderScientists have uncovered a 4,600-year-old pyramid in Egypt. Built of sandstone blocks and clay mortar, it had been constructed in the form of a three-step pyramid.
Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham: Should scientists bother debating creationists?'Science Guy' Bill Nye and Ken Ham, founder of the biblically literalist Creation Museum, are set to debate evolution tomorrow. Is it a mistake for scientists to agree to share a stage with creationists?
