Scientists capture the first image of a black hole—"like looking at the gates of hell."
A new species of ancient human is identified: Homo luzonensis, a diminutive tree-climbing people, the 50,000+-year-old remains of whom were found in a cave on Luzon Island in the northern Philippines.
Earth’s glaciers are shrinking five times faster than they were in the 1960s. The contribution of melting mountain glaciers to global sea level rise is similar to that of the Greenland Ice Sheet and far more than that of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
A (since deleted) op-ed in the Nashville Tennessean blames climate change on gravity. | 
