Comb jellies, soft-bodied marine creatures that swim by beating rows of cilia, may once have had a hard skeleton. Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lice have plagued humankind throughout history. Spreading from person to person by close contact, they latch onto hair ...

The knotty question of the origins of our alphabet has been partly straightened out by the discovery of a comb. In June 2016, an archaeological excavation of the ancient Canaanite city of Lachish ...