Flying pole to pole and back, each year, tiny terns are the world’s migration champs, a new study confirms—but only because their routes are completely convoluted
Oldest star in the universe spotted
A huge explosion called a gamma-ray burst reached Earth earlier this year, after a journey of more than 13 billion years
Nobel Prize in physics goes to “masters of light”
Discoveries that enabled fiber optic cables and digital cameras—backbones of today’s networked society—won the coveted prize
Glacier “bleeds” proof of million-year-old life-forms
Rusty-red-colored liquid seeping from an Antarctic glacier reveals hint of microbes trapped underneath for thousands of years
Horse taming, milking started in Kazakhstan
At least 5,500 years ago, people were putting bridles on horses and milking them, archaeologists have discovered
Turning a business eye on Pakistan’s science
Azam Khan Swati aims to make Pakistan’s science more practical and useful
Neanderthal Genome “First Draft” Unveiled
The DNA findings suggest that Neanderthals were more like us than we had thought
Nobel Prize for Physics Honors Subatomic Breakthroughs
The award goes to research explaining the universe’s fundamental forces and subatomic particles
Large Hadron Collider “Actually Worked”
The world’s biggest experiment started up easily, winging subatomic particles around a 27-kilometer track at nearly the speed of light
Bad guys really do get the most girls
A nasty suite of antisocial personality traits known as the “dark triad” persists in the human population because it gives guys an evolutionary leg up, scientists argue
