Articles by Joel Shirkin
Scientists find the remains of a young dinosaur that starved to death.
Odd viruses flourish in boiling, acidic Yellowstone hot springs.
Plutonium processing plant was saved by conservative engineering.
Scientists learn to measure the threat from radioactive aerosols after an accident.
Researchers train dog detectives so their testimony is admissible in courts.
Experiment in London will test autonomous pods, but big hurdles remain.
Two gangs flow ivory from the wild to Mombasa, and then to the market.
Tusks from millions of mammoths could suppress poaching.
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.
Scientists demonstrate how the brain physically understands language hierarchically.
In the 1960s geologists had to throw out their textbooks.