Cassie Martin

Notable feats include discovering a planet-eating star, extracting RNA from an extinct animal and more.

About 10 percent of the fruit in a tilted market display can be removed before it all crashes down, computer simulations show.

Scientists took a cue from polar bear fur to turn an ultralight insulating material into knittable thread.

After more than 50 years, metrologists will stop using the leap second to align the time kept by atomic clocks with the rate of Earth’s spin.

Decades of research has confirmed that for such simple creatures, trilobites had astoundingly complex eyes.

Masked bees in Australia and French Polynesia have long-lost relatives in Fiji, suggesting that the bees’ ancestors island hopped.

The finding suggests a way for plants to share information about nearby pollinators and communicate when to trigger nectar production.

The solar wind and sunspots seem to give lightning a boost. But exactly how solar activity stimulates strikes is an enduring mystery.

Fifty years ago, scientists figured out how chocolate and cheese set off the headaches. Now we know hormones, stress and the weather can, too.

The discovery of new subatomic particles cemented quarks as a cornerstone of the standard model of particle physics.