Articles by

Maria Temming

A powerful laser can redirect lightning strikes

Like a high-tech hammer of Thor, a powerful laser can grab hold of a lightning bolt and...

50 years ago, Stonehenge’s purpose mystified scientists. It still does

Stonehenge: A calendar or just a crematorium — Science News, November 11, 1972 The monument...

Bizarre aye-aye primates take nose picking to the extreme

Aye-ayes are true champions of nose picking. A new video offers the first evidence that these nocturnal...

NASA’s DART spacecraft just smashed into an asteroid — on purpose

Mission control rooms rarely celebrate crash landings. But the collision of NASA’s DART spacecraft with an asteroid...

50 years ago, physicists got a whiff of what glues together protons

What holds the proton together— Science News, September 16, 1972 An experiment … at the...

Living fast may have helped mammals like ‘ManBearPig’ dominate

In the wake of the dinosaurs’ demise, a bizarre beast that some researchers have nicknamed “ManBearPig” lived...

50 years ago, the dinosaurs’ demise was still a mystery 

What did in the dinosaurs: Warm blood or soft eggs? — Science News, July 22,...

50 years ago, scientists thought a desert shrub might help save endangered whales

Shrub may save the sperm whale – Science News, March 25, 1972 The sperm whale is...