Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
In memoriam: Eugene Parker, an astrophysicist unafraid to follow his equations to the outer reaches of the sun’s atmosphere …
A dance in deep space: Two supermassive black holes are orbiting one another and will eventually merge, releasing a massive amount of energy …
Two heads might be better than one, but thousands are necessary to capture reproducible brain–behavioral phenotype associations …
The solution to energy woes could be 20 kilometers beneath our feet. Technology gleaned from fusion research means we can now dig deeper …
Life from outer space: Could the building blocks of life have come tumbling to Earth aboard intergalactic meteors? New research suggests so …
Compliance, and not coercion, was key to social equity in Monte Albán. The ancient Mexican city had a social contract woven into its existence …
Stonehenge functioned as a solar calendar, like that developed in ancient Egypt. Was Britain’s use of this calendar indigenous or influenced? …
Copied editors: A dispute regarding a patent for using CRISPR/Cas9 in eukaryotic cells has been settled against the Nobel laureate creators of the tool …
Three rex? Scandal shakes paleontology as researchers claim that the T. rex in fact describes three distinct species. The field is split …
Bush to table: Safeguarding plant diversity is an imperative in the fight against malnutrition. Micronutrients aplenty are found in rare greens …
Monkeys with typewriters will not soon write Shakespeare, but orangutans with sharp stones might produce the dagger which I see before me! …
Safety concerns have delayed the construction of ITER. Who would have thought creating an infinite energy source would be so difficult? …
You say eukaryote, I say prokaryote. A big bacterium blurs lines between the two branches of life, providing clues to the evolution of complex cells …
The worst of timing: Fossilized fish bones suggest that the Chicxulub asteroid struck in spring—the most inopportune season for such an event …
Earth functions through a tangle of feedback loops between living and nonliving components. Does this tangle equate to a collective intelligence? …
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