Life on Earth Came from a Hot Volcanic Pool, Not the Sea, New Evidence Suggests
Deep oceans were thought to hold life’s origins. New evidence points instead to an active volcanic landscape
Features
Goodbye, Vaquita: How Corruption and Poverty Doom Endangered Species
What the demise of a small Mexican porpoise tells us about extinction in the 21st century
Meet Neo, a Spectacular New Fossil of Homo naledi
A remarkably complete skeleton and, at last, an age for mysterious Homo naledi
Trump Administration Advances School Vouchers Despite Scant Evidence
Studies show that school vouchers lead to lower math and reading scores. So why has the Trump administration embraced them?
Total Solar Eclipse Offers Rare Chance to Understand the Sun's Atmosphere
The first total solar eclipse to cross the U.S. from coast to coast in 99 years is not only a must-see spectacle but also a valuable scientific opportunity
Solar Eclipse Charted for the Next 1,000 Years
Opportunities abound to watch the sun disappear if you live long and travel
Is This the Next Green Revolution?
To avert a future famine, scientists are manipulating the complex conversation that plants have with microbes, pests and other elements of the phytobiome
What Self-Talk Reveals about the Brain
Studies of the conversations people have with themselves open a window on the hidden workings of the mind
Departments
- From the Editor
How Did Life Begin on Earth?
- Letters
Readers Respond to the April 2017 Issue
- Advances
How We Save Face--Researchers Crack the Brain's Facial-Recognition Code
Inside Australia's War on Invasive Species
Where's My Elephant? High-Tech Collars Track Wildlife in Real Time
Mexico Looks to Curb Carbon with a New Cap-and-Trade System
Quick Hits
Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Failure Gets a Gold-Standard Trial
Uninhabited Island Reveals Scope of the World's Plastic Problem
Plastic-Eating Worms Could Inspire Waste-Degrading Tools
Volcanoes May Have Triggered the Last Unexplained Mass Extinction
- Forum
Preserving the Right to Cognitive Liberty
- The Science of Health
Sophisticated Digital Aids Could Help Determine What Ails You
- The Science Agenda
No One Should Have Sole Authority to Launch a Nuclear Attack
- TechnoFiles
Magical Technologies Just over the Horizon
- Recommended
Resurrecting Ancient Beasts, a Mysterious Disease and Other New Science Books
- Skeptic
Are We All Racists Deep Inside?
- Anti Gravity
The President's Views of Science Are Not Based in Reality
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
Hyperefficient Agriculture, 50 Years Ago and Now
- Graphic Science
Nuclear Power Heats Up in Asia, Cools in the West
