The bones of victims of the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius in the nearby town of Herculaneum have revealed fascinating differences in the diets of the...
A police raid in Brazil has saved our scientific knowledge of an incredibly well-preserved flying lizard that sported a ridiculously large head crest. The police had...
Elite athletes – like Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who won gold for the men’s 1,500 meter race at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics – train almost ten to 14...
After taking new radio observations, astronomers have ruled out a leading explanation for the cyclic nature of a particularly curious repeating space signal. The signal in...
When we search for life out there in the galaxy, we base our efforts on what we know. So far, we know only one planet that...
The skeleton of an ancient woman, discovered in an Indonesian cave in 2015, appears to have ancestry unlike any other human found to date. Her remains...
Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine got full Food and Drug Administration approval on Monday – and the agency also approved the vaccine’s official name, Comirnaty, pronounced koe-mir-na-tee. Comirnaty...
Picturing how our species might appear in the far future often invites wild speculation over stand-out features such as height, brain size, and skin complexion. Yet subtle...
Artificially grown organoids are becoming more and more important in scientific and medical research. Now, scientists have measured activity similar to actual brain waves in lab-grown...
Nearly 2,000 years ago, the ancient people of Teotihuacan wrapped bunches of flowers into beautiful bouquets, laid them beneath a jumble of wood and set the pile ablaze....