Even after ancient humans took their first steps out of Africa, they still unexpectedly may have possessed brains more like those of great apes than…
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The under-ice trek of an autonomous underwater vehicle is giving scientists their first direct evidence for how and where warm ocean waters are threatening the…
The most oxygen-poor star-forming galaxy ever found hints that the first galaxies to arise after the universe’s birth glittered with supermassive stars that left behind…
In another hiccup for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, data suggest it is in fact linked to blood clots that have formed in the brains of some…
Are you planning to move to Boise, Idaho anytime soon? Well, you will have a lot to adjust to when you do. Idaho is a…
Picture a bridge made of Legos. One side has three support pieces, the other two. How would you stabilize the bridge? Most people would add…
Pipe DreamsChelsea WaldAvid Reader Press, $27 Everyone poops. But not everyone has a safe, sanitary place to do it. What’s more, existing wastewater treatments consume…
Depictions of extinct human ancestors and cousins are often more art than science. Take, for example, two reconstructions of the Taung child, a 2.8-million-year-old Australopithecus…
The day before a giant asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, a very different kind of rainforest thrived in what is now Colombia. Ferns…
A century ago, people needed help to understand science. Much as they do today. Then as now, it wasn’t always easy to sort the accurate…