Stories by Megan Gannon

A scientist who made a stunning time-lapse video of a growing quail embryo took home top honors in Nikon's 2013 Small World in Motion Competition, a contest that treats photomicrographs—pictures often used by scientists—as objects of art

SpaceX founder Elon Musk also spoke at the Explorers Club event and emphasized the importance of a reusable rocket system for space exploration

Using ground-penetrating radar, archaeologists have digitally reconstructed living quarters, a bath complex and a training arena

Research in the past 26 years, although not definitive, points to a match with the "Father of Europe"

The 2,000-year-old wreck, off the coast of Sri Lanka, may hold clues about trade between Roman and Asian societies

Researchers may have found the remains of King Alfred the Great in museum storage

The fossil of a tyrannosaurid and ceratopsid, which captures them as if they died in combat, could fetch millions of dollars

"Hair" is a term among physicists as a stand-in for any other measure needed to describe a black hole other than its mass, its angular momentum and its electric charge

NOAA scientists confirm killer of dead bottlenose dolphins washing up along East Coast

A greener fuel "less toxic than caffeine" could replace NASA's dangerous hydrazine rocket propellant

Original estimates of this summer's cicada swarms may have overlooked an important variable—localization

The six-hour spacewalk involves upgrading the orbiting lab with new experiments to measure charged particle interactions and the effects of microbes on spacecraft materials

A new mathematical model shoots down claims that an unknown disease epidemic wiped out the meat-eating marsupial

The Iranian space program plans to launch a live monkey into space, despite previous failed attempts

Six groups of seals threatened by shrinking sea ice are gaining protections, as their habitats are forecast to shrink significantly due to global warming

A Russian foundation has honored eight scientists with the world's richest science award—nearly three times as lucrative as the Nobel Prize

Research on howler monkeys shows interbreeding leaves no obvious genetic markers

The flowers have been a molecular mystery for years, but scientists think they may have discovered the combination of pigments that create these unusual beauties

Humans might be able to unconsciously perform complex tasks like reading and learning