All Stories by Stephen Ornes
- Fossils
Dino drama
Scientists study skulls to determine whether Triceratops and Torosaurus were two different species.
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- Earth
Twist and shake
A new look at the shape of the San Andreas Fault suggests future earthquakes may be stronger than previously thought.
- Fossils
Early toehold on land
A five-toed fossil now holds the record for smallest, oldest foot ever found.
- Physics
Too fast to be true
Last September, scientists working on an Italian experiment called OPERA reported a measurement that seemed too amazing to be true. Their finding involved neutrinos, supersmall and ultrafast particles that can travel through almost anything without stopping. The scientists measured the speeds of neutrinos that zipped from one underground laboratory to another and reported that the zippy little particles traveled faster than light. In November, they repeated the experiment and got the same results.
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- Health & Medicine
Losing control over sugar
A common pollutant and sweetener mess with important hormones.
- Climate
Sudden big chill
Earth’s climate cooled quickly at the beginning of the Little Ice Age, hundreds of years ago.
- Planets
Worlds beyond the solar system
Planet hunters have found hundreds of exoplanets, but none just like Earth.
- Space
Surprise ions
A high-flying satellite reveals a crowd of charged particles in the magnetosphere.
- Animals
Costs of missing sleep
Some fruit flies do fine without sleep, as long as they’ve got enough to eat.
- Animals
Pythons overtake Everglades
In southern Florida, giant snakes change the ecosystem one meal at a time.
