As Hawaii deliberates, giant telescope considers new home By Daniel CleryOct. 12, 2016 State could prove inhospitable even if TMT wins permit
‘Game-changing’ study suggests first Polynesians voyaged all the way from East Asia By Ann GibbonsOct. 3, 2016 Ancient genomes trace first settlement of the remote Pacific to Asian farmers
Deep Space Network glitches worry scientists By Paul VoosenSep. 29, 2016 NASA's aging radio antennas have faced years of budget cuts, threatening far-off spacecraft
Japan likely to scrap experimental nuclear power reactor By Dennis NormileSep. 21, 2016 The Monju fast breeder reactor was plagued by accidents, cover-ups, and chronic safety issues
Why Australia is home to one of the largest language families in the world By Michael Erard Sep. 21, 2016 Researchers put linguistics and genomics together to explore how ancient Aborigines expanded across Australia and began to speak different languages
Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50,000 years ago By Elizabeth Culotta, Ann GibbonsSep. 21, 2016 Genetic data confirm that ancient Aborigines and Eurasians left Africa in one single, great wave
University of Tokyo to investigate data manipulation charges against six prominent research groups By Dennis NormileSep. 20, 2016 Anonymous individual or group claims that 22 papers contain fabricated or falsified data
World’s oldest fishhook found on Okinawa By Michael PriceSep. 16, 2016 Early modern humans carved them from seashell snails
Debate signals cloudy outlook for Chinese supercollider By Hao XinSep. 12, 2016 Nobel laureate blasts proposal for world’s biggest particle accelerator