The Great London [02/06/17] 

  • Fossils: 520-million-year-old arthropod brains turn paleontology on its head

    Science has long dictated that brains don't fossilize, so when Nicholas Strausfeld co-authored the first ever report of a fossilized brain in a 2012 edition of Nature, it was met with "a lot of flack."A: Under a light microscope, the above fossil shows traces of preserved neural tissues in black. B: An elemental scan of this fossi…

  1. Beyond planet Earth: The future of space exploration on view at the American Museum of Natural History
  2. Getty's 'Imagining the Past in France' illuminates Middle Ages
  3. Antarctic ice reveals trapped secrets of climate change
  4. 'Connecting Continents: Indian Ocean Trade and Exchange' opens at the British Museum
  5. Relatives shrug off 'Curse of Tutankhamun' tomb jinx