Humans are not uniquely prone to dangerous childbirth, according to a new study from the…
Scientists Tested More Than 120 Bee Species — Nearly 90% Could Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field
Nearly 90% of tested bee species possess magnetic properties, according to a groundbreaking six-year study…
Scientists May Have Finally Solved the Mystery of Human Right-Handedness
Bipedal walking and brain expansion are the primary reasons why most humans are right-handed, according…
Study Finds Latin America and North America See Wildlife in Opposite Ways and Colonization May Explain Why
Latin America is far more likely to view wildlife as part of their social community,…
Antarctic Ice Melt May Be Speeding Up Sea-Level Rise in a Way Climate Models Miss
Antarctic ice melt may trigger a powerful ocean chain reaction that accelerates further melting, according…
JWST Spots a 13-Billion-Year-Old Galaxy That May Preserve Signs of the Universe’s First Stars
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified a faint galaxy called LAP1-B as…
New “Hairy” Ghost Pipefish Species Found on the Great Barrier Reef After Years of Being Misidentified
Scientists have identified a new species of ghost pipefish living in the Great Barrier Reef…
Scientists Build First Custom Biological Wire That Creates New Electrical Brain Connections
Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine have developed a technology called LinCx that creates…
Neanderthals May Have Practiced Dentistry 59,000 Years Ago, Fossil Tooth Suggests
The world’s oldest known evidence of successful dental treatment has been discovered in a Neanderthal…
Study Finds Early Humans May Have Relied on Portable Containers as Far Back as 500,000 Years Ago
A new study suggests that containers like bags, trays, and pouches may have played a…
New Crystal Discovered Inside 80-Year-Old Trinity Nuclear Blast Glass Reveals Exotic Form of Matter
Eighty years after the Trinity nuclear explosion, researchers have identified a previously unknown crystal compound…
Baby Dinosaurs May Have Eaten Better Than Adults, Tooth Wear Study Suggests
A new study suggests that baby Maiasaura dinosaurs may have been fed softer, more nutritious…
Ancient Comb-Limbed Creatures May Have Filtered Seawater Like Modern Ocean Feeders
More than 500 million years ago, bizarre worm-like animals called luolishaniids may have survived by…
Scientists Uncover 1,000 Genetic “Switches” That May Explain Why Autoimmune Diseases Hit Women Harder
New research from the Garvan Institute and UNSW Sydney has identified more than 1,000 genetic…
Coffee May Quietly Reshape How the Brain Controls Movement, New Study Finds
A new study suggests caffeine may do more than sharpen alertness — it could also…
Astronomers Detect One of the Most Persistent Optical Signals Ever Seen From a Distant Blazar
An international team of astronomers has identified a remarkably persistent optical quasi-periodic oscillation, or QPO,…
1.6 Million-Year-Old Bones Reveal Early Homo Were Skilled Meat Foragers, Not Just Scavengers
New research analyzing more than 1,000 fossil bones from northern Kenya shows that early Homo…
Astronomers Confirm a 3.3 Million Light Year Radio Halo Spanning the Galaxy Cluster RXCJ0232–4420
New radio observations of the galaxy cluster RXCJ0232–4420 confirm that its central diffuse emission spans…
Neanderthals May Have Turned Rhino Teeth Into Tough Tools for Stoneworking
Neanderthals may have done more than hunt and eat rhinoceroses—they may have repurposed the animals’…
Moon’s Giant South Pole–Aitken Crater May Have Been Carved by a 260-Kilometer Impactor, New Study Finds
A new study in Science Advances has narrowed down how the Moon’s enormous South Pole–Aitken…
Ancient Shell Mound in Sri Lanka Reveals Earliest Confirmed Human Settlement in the North
Archaeologists have identified the earliest scientifically confirmed evidence of prehistoric human occupation in northern Sri…
Giant 20-Meter Dinosaur Found 8 Meters Underground at a Brazil Construction Site
A newly described dinosaur species, Dasosaurus tocantinensis, has been identified from fossils uncovered during construction…