Bumper load of new viruses identified

Scientists looking into invertebrate animals discover nearly 1,500 new viruses - the largest number documented in any one study. It also indicates they have existed for billions of years. By Jonathan Ball.

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In Fiji, ants have learned to grow plants to house their massive colonies

These insects are farmers who grow entire cities from seeds.

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The New Agent Orange

These veterans say war made them sick. The Department of Defense doesn’t agree. By Jennifer Percy.

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The squiggle on the map that shaped the modern world

Christopher Simon Sykes aims to humanise his much reviled grandfather who, in 1916, with François Georges-Picot, secretly parcelled out the Middle East — with the bitterest consequences.

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A Death in Yellowstone

On the trail of a killer grizzly bear. By Jessica Grose

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Miami Beach has run out of sand. Now what?

For years the sea has been eating away at the shore, and the city has spent millions of dollars pumping up sand from the seafloor to replace it, only to have it wash away again. By Josh Dzieza.

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Ancient residential city, cemetery discovered in Abydos, Egypt

The head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector, Mahmoud Afify, announced Wednesday the discovery of a cemetery and a residential city dating back to 5,316 BCE, the beginning of an important dynastic period. The discovery was made during excavations conducted by an Egyptian archaeological mission belonging to the Ministry of Antiquities...

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