Apart from the global catastrophe that killed off most of the dinosaurs, some experts think almost all the mass extinctions in Earth’s history were followed by...
Researchers have observed it in the wild many times: Primates from baboons to apes carrying around their infants after they’ve died. This happens regularly across non-primate...
Over 35 countries, including the world’s largest carbon emitters, are falling short of their commitments to curb climate change, according to a bleak new analysis –...
Last year, XENON1T, the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector, seemed to deliver a hit. Not of dark matter, but something else. Perhaps neutrinos, perhaps solar...
The world’s longest known cave system just set a new record after surveyors spent hours mapping an additional 8 miles (13 kilometers) of the passageways at...
Researchers have found intriguing evidence in mice that a blood-to-brain pathway could be responsible for introducing the toxic particles that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease into our...
For 900 years, scholars and stargazers have sought to explain a bright cosmic object that briefly lit up the skies above China and Japan in 1181...
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You only have to take a look at the Moon to see that it’s had something of a rough time during its roughly 4.5-billion-year history, but...
The scars on dozens of Tyrannosaurus rex skulls suggest these apex predators repeatedly bit one another’s faces once they hit reproductive age. When paleontologists analyzed 202...