Stories by Jeanna Bryner

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 million years, a new study suggests

Physicists showed that photons can seem to exit a material before entering it, revealing observational evidence of negative time

A tiny human relative called the hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, may have evolved from a larger ancestor that shrunk upon arriving on the Indonesian island of Flores, a new fossil suggests

The tourist submersible Titan imploded while diving to visit the wreckage of the Titanic, which sank in 1912

Thanks to huge advancements in technology to monitor and treat type 1 diabetes, families like mine can sleep throughout the night

See a stunning new view of Neptune’s rings and oddball moon Triton from the James Webb Space Telescope

The peak is one of the world’s most active volcanoes, last erupting in 2002

This is some of the most dramatic activity since the floor of one of the volcano’s craters collapsed in 2018

It is theoretically possible, though there is no known connection between the fault systems

The temblor occurred where one tectonic plate is diving beneath another

The quake, one of the largest in OK recently, hit near a major oil hub in the region

Scientists get the first-ever glimpse of the magnesium silicate mineral, now named after physicist Percy Bridgman

Die-offs have been documented everywhere from California to Alaska and Maine through New Jersey

A blob on a weather radar in Alabama caught meteorologists off guard this past June. Now, they've discovered it was due to reflective particles used to test military radar

The National Zoo's panda cam went live this morning and reached maximum viewership within 10 minutes

DNA analysis confirms that bones excavated from underneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, are the remains of the vilified English king, Richard III

Exercise is good for you, whereas high heels are not, and calling an ambulance saves lives

A warming planet, which is causing sea ice in Antarctica (and elsewhere) to melt, may ultimately be to blame for the plummeting penguin population

Mere minutes of therapy quieted brain regions that process fear. Six months later, those areas remained less active than before therapy

New fMRI images of unsedated dogs represent a first peak into what dogs are thinking and open a door into canine cognition and social cognition in other species

Compression fossils reveal that these Mesozoic insects with serrated mouthparts were 10 times bigger than today's fleas, but lacked jumping legs

A new analysis of implicit bias and explicit sexual orientation statements may help to explain the underpinnings of anti-gay bullying and hate crimes

The confiscated wooden covers are adorned with hieroglyphics and highlight what is a seemingly vast black market for mummies

There are no plans to create human chimeras, a researcher emphasized. This research by itself should help with biomedical studies more relevant to humans