Neanderthals used overlooked bone fragments as hammers, wedges and tools for working hides and plants
Lifetime experience may help people handle almost any emotion, but calming sadness and disgust appears to depend much more on mental agility
Long-overlooked museum fossils uncovered an extinct toad that disappeared as Southern California’s climate changed
A black hole’s brightest outburst ended with a powerful cool wind that may have carried away as much matter as the black hole could swallow
After Nearly 80 Years of Mistaken Identity, Eight Elusive Deep-Water Fishes Turned Out Not to Be Seahorses at All
A 130-Electron-Volt X-Ray Flash Vanished in Minutes Before an Explosion That Looked Like a Gamma-Ray-Burst Supernova Without the Gamma Rays
One Nearly Perfectly Symmetric Transit Stood Out Among Tabby’s Star’s Chaotic 20% Dimming Events—and May Trace a 9.4-Jupiter-Mass Companion
Six Years of Stellar Eclipses Suggest Pluto’s Atmosphere Stayed Stable Until About 2021 Before Beginning Its First Measurable Decline
Jupiter’s Hydrogen Could Keep Earth Bright for 9.1 Million Billion Years After the Sun Becomes Too Hot for Life
Violent Supernova Kicks Sent Some Milky Way Black Holes Beyond the Galaxy While Others Drifted 2.5 Times Higher Than the Stellar Disk
Nearly Complete Gobi Desert Fossil Overturns 40 Years of Ancient Mammal Evolution Built on Teeth Alone
520-Million-Year-Old Fossil From South China Preserves the Earliest Known Cephalopod Siphuncle, Bridging a 30-Million-Year Evolutionary Gap
