Science

The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the spe...

The last population of woolly mammoths did not go extinct 4,000 years ago from i...

Ancient Egyptian scribes’ work left its mark on their s...

Years of hunching over, chewing pens and gripping brushes left the skeletons of ...

We may finally know the source of mysterious high-energ...

Regions around supermassive black holes in active galaxies could produce a lot o...

In ‘Warming Up,’ the sports world’s newest opponent is ...

In her debut book, Madeleine Orr presents an authoritative account of climate ch...

Something weird is happening to Earth’s inner core

A new study claims to confirm that the inner core is now rotating more slowly th...

Honeybees can “smell” lung cancer

Bees can detect the scent of lung cancer in lab-grown cells and synthetic breath...

A lost civilization’s partial alphabet was discovered i...

In online images of an ancient tablet, an expert spotted previously unnoticed le...

A black hole made from pure light is impossible, thanks...

A “kugelblitz” is a black hole made of concentrated electromagnetic energy. But ...

A new study challenges the idea that Rapa Nui islanders...

Rapa Niu islanders farmed and fished enough to feed only a few thousand people, ...

Beneficial bacteria help these marine worms survive ext...

Three species of marine worms living in Antarctic waters have beneficial relatio...

A heat dome is baking the United States. Here’s why tha...

As climate change makes heat waves more frequent and intense, older adults, preg...

Pain may take different pathways in men and women

Sex differences in the function of nerve cells in mice, monkeys and humans sugge...

Meet Lokiceratops, a newly discovered species of horned...

Found in Montana’s badlands, Lokiceratops had two large, bladelike horns jutting...

Can leeches leap? New video may help answer that debate

For some, it’s the stuff of nightmares. But a grad student’s serendipitous cell ...

‘After 1177 B.C.’ describes how societies fared when th...

Archaeologist Eric H. Cline’s new book reconstructs ancient examples of societal...

Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole turn on for...

A galaxy transitioned from being dim and quiet to bright and active, giving astr...

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