Faced with a terminal lung cancer diagnosis and a financially precarious future for his family, the mild-mannered high school ...

New excavations and geomagnetic data from the Eilsleben site in Germany reveal a massive, fortified outpost dating back to ...

Credit: Colossal Biosciences. A new conservation project in Dubai aims to preserve frozen tissue and DNA from threatened ...

They placed a hamster wheel in the wild to see whether mice would use it as they do in captivity. Not only did the wild mice ...

Researchers in South Korea have designed a polymer composite that keeps its structure even near 1,000 °C flames, potentially ...

Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...

The boy’s burial is as striking as his injuries. Hundreds of pierced shells formed a headdress. Ivory pendants and carved antlers accompanied him. A long flint blade—likely a prestige object—rested in ...

Some ecologists even refer to our current epoch as the “Pyrocene,” acknowledging how fire has altered the environment. But ...

The global fight against extreme poverty used to be a success story. In 1981, a staggering 41% of the world’s population lived on less than a couple of dollars a day. By 2024, that number plummeted to ...

Despite objections and doubts, these big cities are showing that approaches to reduce pollution can and do work.

H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has long ceased to be just a problem for birds. Since its arrival in the United States in 2014, the virus has aggressively expanded its territory, ...

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...