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A long, complicated battle over 9,000-year-old bones is finally over

A long, complicated battle over 9,000-year-old bones is finally over

The 1996 discovery of Kennewick Man, one of the oldest North American human skeletons ever found, erupted in an unprecedented fight between scientists and Native American beliefs.
by Tasneem Raja

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Mercury to cross in front of sun in rare event. Here's how to watch

Mercury to cross in front of sun in rare event. Here's how to watch

Stargazers, ready your (solar-filtered) telescopes: Mercury will pass directly across the sun on Monday for more than seven hours. And you can watch when it does -- if you do it just right.

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Geologists find clues in crater of dino-killing asteroid

Geologists find clues in crater of dino-killing asteroid

After weeks of drilling from an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have reached rocks left over from the day the Earth was hit by a killer asteroid.
by Geoff Brumfiel

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Boaty by another name: 'Sir David Attenborough' is chosen for research ship

Boaty by another name: 'Sir David Attenborough' is chosen for research ship

Boaty McBoatface received more than 124,000 votes in an online poll by Britain's Natural Environment Research Council — more than 10 times the 11,000 votes for Attenborough's name.

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3 strange worlds circling a cool star might be prime spots to support life

3 strange worlds circling a cool star might be prime spots to support life

Scientists say each of these planets has one searingly hot side that's always facing the star and one frigidly cold side that's always facing away. But the regions in between might be cozy.

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Bees need a safety buddy, and this dog is it

Bees need a safety buddy, and this dog is it

The newest apiary inspector at the Maryland Department of Agriculture is Mack, a 2-year-old yellow Lab. He joined the team last fall to help his inspect beehives for a highly contagious bacterial disease.
by Jodi Helmer

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Autonomous killer robots in battle: The good and the bad

Autonomous killer robots in battle: The good and the bad

New algorithms and huge new databases are allowing robots to navigate complex spaces. It doesn't take much imagination to conjure a future in which a swarm of those robots are used on a battlefield.

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Science Museum chosen by NASA for new educational effort

Science Museum chosen by NASA for new educational effort

A $14.5 million contract will allow staff from the Science Museum of Minnesota to create new programming based on NASA research for museums and educators nationwide.
by Jon Collins

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Not a drone after all? Unclear what hit that British Airways plane

Not a drone after all? Unclear what hit that British Airways plane

The incident prompted calls for more drone regulation, but a U.K. lawmaker now says it probably was not a drone that struck the plane. And an investigation has ended because of a lack of evidence.
by Dana Farrington

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