Airplanes Could Save Fuel, Time and Emissions by Better Surfing the Wind

Archaeologists Unearth Egyptian Queen’s Tomb, 13-Foot ‘Book of the Dead’ Scroll. According to the statement, this is the first time archaeologists have unearthed 3,000-year-old coffins at Saqqara—one of Egypt’s “richest archaeological sites,” as Jo Marchant wrote for Smithsonian magazine last year.

Catching cancer in the act: Using CRISPR technology, researchers are tracking the lineage of individual cancer cells as they proliferate and metastasize in real-time.

Big bumblebees take time to learn the locations of the best flowers, new research shows. "It might not be widely known that pollinating insects learn and develop individual flower preferences, but in fact bumblebees are selective."