After 15 years, we know the first Denisovan skull.” With these words, Qiaomei Fu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced a paradigm-shifting moment in human evolution research, as molecular ...

Dubbed “the face on Mars,” it soon attracted the attention of fringe pseudoscience enthusiasts (and, no doubt, grifters) who promoted it as some kind of monument made by extinct Martians.

See Jupiter's “frosted cupcake” clouds in this 3D rendering created using data from NASA's Juno mission. It's the first time ...