DRC's Ebola Doctor Builds Trust Door to Door Behind the Case Count
Ebola coverage has been almost entirely numeric this month; this profile asks what response means in communities that don't believe the outbreak is real.
Kenji Nakamura
Bureau: Tokyo
A New Analysis Finds the Universe's Expansion Is Still Accelerating
A contested cosmological measurement about the universe's fate gets a public correction, and the discipline is tracking the evidence, not picking a winner.
Wild Monkeys' Flexible Feet Complicate a Theory of Human Walking
Fossil bones have long been used to infer soft-tissue climbing ability they can't directly preserve, and this finding cautions against over-reading them.
Illinois Fossils Show Early Land Animals Skipped a Life Stage
A textbook assumption built on analogy to modern amphibians is being revised, and science-communicator X flagged the finding two months before this week's regional pickup.