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Nikola Solic / Reuters Neanderthal Dental Plaque Shows What a Paleo Diet Really Looks Like
Some ate woolly rhinos; some were vegetarians.
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Malcolm MacIver Fish Changed in a Surprising Way Before Invading Land
Even before they grew strong legs, their eyes surged in size.
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Steven Senne / AP What Exactly Are People Marching for When They March for Science?
The event has around 21 stated goals.
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New York Genome Center This Speck of DNA Contains a Movie, a Computer Virus, and an Amazon Gift Card
Meet the storage format that never goes obsolete.
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Neil Hammerschlag Coral Reefs Shouldn’t Look Like Finding Nemo
Scientists have devised an ingenious new method to figure out which of these habitats are most worth saving.
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Thomas Mukoya / Reuters Wild Elephants Sleep Just Two Hours a Night
They get less than any other animal, which leaves a jumbo-sized hole in theories about why animals snooze at all.
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Bettmann / Getty Do Scientists Lose Credibility When They Become Political?
A new study suggests that, contrary to common fears, the answer is no.
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Reuters How Brain Scientists Forgot That Brains Have Owners
Five neuroscientists argue that fancy new technologies have led the field astray.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP A Probiotic Skin Cream Made With a Person’s Own Microbes
A new approach to treating eczema harnesses the defensive bacteria that already live on us.
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Scott Audette / Reuters The NASA Rocket Scientist Leaving Mars for Politics
After 13 years at her dream job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Tracy Van Houten feels newly called to run for office.
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Nathan Williamson for Gabon National Parks Africa's Other Elephant Is Fading Fast
In a supposedly safe national park, poachers have slaughtered 80 percent of these elusive animals in just ten years.
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Connor Mallon/Smithsonian's National Zoo The Life, Times, and Departure of Bao Bao the Panda
Four years after her miraculous birth at Washington, D.C.’s National Zoo, the fluffy celebrity is headed to China.
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Beawiharta Beawiharta / Reuters Sea Turtles Are in Much Worse Shape Than Previously Thought
A commonly used counting method might have overestimated their numbers by a factor of two.
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Daniel Kronauer This Beetle Bites an Ant’s Waist and Pretends to be Its Butt
It takes an unusual strategy to survive nature’s most destructive swarms.
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Str Old / Reuters What Mirrors Tell Us About Animal Minds
… including our own.
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Reuters In Bacteria, Persistence Leads to Resistance
No, this is not a metaphor.
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Michael James Butts One Harvard Lab, Six Iranian Scientists, and Some Tea
How a close-knit team is thinking about Trump’s immigration order
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Courtesy of Yisrael Schnytzer This Crab Clones Its Allies by Ripping Them in Half
It wields sea anemones like boxing gloves; if it loses one, it makes another by bisecting the remaining one.
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Rafael Marchante / Reuters The Brain’s Connections Shrink During Sleep
This mass downscaling stops neurons from becoming saturated—which may be one of the reasons why sleep exists at all.
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Dru Bloomfield / Flickr Scientists Open Their Labs to Colleagues Stranded by Trump’s Immigration Ban
More than 380 people have signed a list volunteering their facilities to American-based researchers who are stuck outside the U.S.
