Author Archives: Eric Jaffe

How to Silence a Cricket

By Eric Jaffe / September 21, 2006

A killer fly stalks noise-making crickets in Hawaii.

Posted in Animals

By Eric Jaffe / September 13, 2006

Signs carved into a stone slab may represent the earliest known writing in the Americas.

Posted in Ancient Times

By Eric Jaffe / September 13, 2006

Astronomers spot an unusual object orbiting a nearby star.

Posted in Space

By Eric Jaffe / August 31, 2006

Tiny fossils show that rainforests existed in the western Amazon millions of years ago.

Posted in Dinosaurs & Fossils

By Eric Jaffe / August 24, 2006

Observations of a tremendous galactic crash point to invisible stuff called dark matter.

Posted in Space

By Eric Jaffe / July 3, 2006

Astronomers have spotted an odd pair of banana-shaped features in a planet-forming cloud around a nearby star.

Posted in Space

By Eric Jaffe / June 8, 2006

Researchers have rediscovered and studied a millipede with as many as 750 legs.

Posted in Animals