Science

A universal equation for the shape of an egg

Learning from a 'living fossil'

How a racing heart may alter decision-making brain circuits

Perceptions of supernatural beings reveal feelings about good and bad in humans

Brain refreshing: Why the dreaming phase matters

Geneticists map the rhinoceros family tree

The physics behind a tardigrade's lumbering gait

Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions

Volcanic eruptions may have spurred first 'whiffs' of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere

Will it be safe for humans to fly to Mars?

New class of habitable exoplanets represent a big step forward in the search for life

Geologists dig into Grand Canyon's mysterious gap in time

Genetic enigma solved: Inheritance of coat color patterns in dogs

Toward next-generation brain-computer interface systems

Engineers uncover the secrets of fish fins

Global warming begets more warming, new paleoclimate study finds

Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying: IPCC

Eating more plant foods may lower heart disease risk in young adults, older women

Space scientists reveal secret behind Jupiter's 'energy crisis'

Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants, study finds

Major Atlantic ocean current system might be approaching critical threshold