The discovery of fragments of a child’s skull in a hard-to-access cave in South Africa is reigniting speculation that human ancestors paid special attention to their...
The idea of artificial intelligence overthrowing humankind has been talked about for many decades, and in January 2021, scientists delivered their verdict on whether we’d be...
Using a new on-board experiment, NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered traces of previously undetected organic molecules on Mars. None of the organic molecules identified in the...
Cervical cancer cases plummeted among British women who received a vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a study published Thursday. In comparing cervical cancer...
Britain on Thursday became the first country to approve an anti-COVID pill, as it greenlit the use of Merck’s antiviral drug to treat patients suffering from...
There’s an idea in the popular imagination that being struck by lightning is an extremely rare way to go. Statistically speaking, there is some truth to...
Once the tremors subside, the most immediate proof of an earthquake is seeing the altered landscape it left behind. But much less obvious markers of seismic...
If fossil fuel emissions do not dramatically decrease and soon, a new study suggests the various ecosystems of life on our planet will be rapidly transformed,...
There’s a mysteriously shaped cluster of stars at the center of the Andromeda Galaxy, around 2.5 million light-years away and neighbor to the Milky Way. It’s...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday called for the urgent development of a vaccine against a bacterial infection responsible for nearly 150,000 stillbirths and infant...