Articles by

Katherine Kornei

A barrage of radiation couldn’t kill this hardy life-form

An unassuming lichen harbors a hidden superpower: It’s remarkably resistant to ultraviolet radiation. New experiments on the...

Seafloor amber may hold hints of a tsunami 115 million years ago

Wavelike patterns in 115-million-year-old amber suggest that a long-ago tsunami inundated what is now northern Japan, researchers...

See how the Hubble Space Telescope is still revolutionizing astronomy

After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out hits. In just the last year...

Juno reveals dozens of lava lakes on Jupiter’s moon Io

Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, is littered with hundreds of...

An African strontium map sheds light on the origins of enslaved people

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of...