Planet Nine may have tilted entire solar system except the sun
The sun's spin isn't totally upright compared with the orbits of the planets. Could this be because a jealous, distant world shoved its siblings?
No, the Death Star Isn’t Impossibly Big in the Rogue One Poster. We Did the Math
Dingo cannibalism makes for a dog-eat-dog world in Australia
Australia’s wild dogs have been caught on camera for the first time savaging dead dingoes, a rare case of cannibalism unprovoked by hunger
Fossils, islands and forests added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Designation of several new sites around the world as having outstanding natural value to humanity could aid conservation and bring in money from tourists
Do more now to deliver on climate promises, world leaders told
The Elders, a group of prominent dignitaries, have issued a statement calling on governments to stop backtracking on the Paris summit's commitments
The Sea Will Get a Lot Quieter Without the Navy’s Whale-Killing Sonar
David Chang’s Unified Theory of Deliciousness
Next-gen Mars orbiters to help human missions become more real
NASA has funded studies to investigate how new orbiter spacecraft can best serve a human ground crew on Mars for a potential mission in the 2020s
Humans decimating the diversity of life should worry us all
A global limit set for safe biodiversity loss may be a blunt tool, but we still need to worry about breaching it far and wide says Georgina Mace
Well-travelled chimps more likely to pick up tools and innovate
What makes some apes pick up tools and others not has perplexed scientists, but hunger brought on by travel appears to be a big motivator