Articles by

Jay Bennett

A strange ‘chirp’ in a brilliant stellar blast points to a magnetar

About a billion light-years away, an extraordinary stellar explosion lit up in the night sky. The blast,...

The ancient human ancestor ‘Little Foot’ gets a new face

Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction...

A mouth built for efficiency may have helped the earliest bird fly

About 150 million years ago, in a coastal lagoon in what is now southern Germany, the oldest...

Fossilized vomit reveals 290-million-year-old predator’s diet

Two hundred and ninety million years ago, in a mountain valley within the central region of the...

Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago

Four hundred thousand years ago, near a water hole on grasslands bordering a forest in what is...

A foot fossil suggests a second early human relative lived alongside Lucy

In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing the desert landscape of Burtele, a paleontological site in...

Moss spores survived in space for 9 months

In an extraordinary display of biological resilience, moss spores survived for nine months outside the International Space...

NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Takes Flight

About an hour after sunrise over the Mojave Desert of Southern California, NASA’s newest experimental supersonic jet...