Earth

The first three months of the year were the second warmest in 141 years of record keeping

Introducing herds of large herbivores in the Arctic would disturb surface snow, allowing cold air to reach the ground and keep the permafrost frosty.

Data from tree rings suggest this drought is the worst in the region in 500 years

Warm temperatures, clear weather and little snow all played a role in last summer’s major melt event on the ice sheet

Humboldt squid can rapidly change the pigmentation and luminescence patterns on their skin by contracting and relaxing their muscles, possibly to communicate.

Dating back 67 million years, this representative of the group of modern birds has been dubbed the Wonderchicken (which is not an April Fools’ Day joke).

A reduction in seismic noise because of changes in human activity is a boon for geoscientists

A handful of venture capitalists are taking big financial risks in hopes of even bigger rewards

Unconcerned about climate change on Earth, senator wants to create atmospheres on other planets

The bilateral organism crawled on the seafloor, taking in organic matter at one end and dumping the remains out the other some 555 million years ago.

Here are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about the discovery of an intact chicken egg dating to Roman Britain.

Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society in the U.K., talks about flat earth belief and its relationship to conspiracy theories and other antiscience activities.