The story begins with a single image in a 2021 museum catalog. It was the face of a man preserved…
300-Million-Year-Old Horseshoe Crab Fossil Reveals One of the Earliest Known Animal Diseases
When scientists split open a smooth ironstone nodule from the Mazon Creek beds of Illinois, they did not expect to…
Young Dinosaurs Roamed Free While Their Giant Parents Lived Miles Away
Picture a newborn Brachiosaurus no bigger than a golden retriever, nudging its way through prehistoric undergrowth with a dozen siblings…
Climbers Stumble Upon 1,000 Ancient Footprints That Capture a Prehistoric Panic Attack
The story begins not in a laboratory but on a rugged slope above the Adriatic Sea, where a group of…
Scientists Uncover 16,000 Dinosaur Footprints on an Ancient Bolivian Coastline—and the Behaviors They Reveal Are Stunning
The ground in southern Bolivia carries a quiet kind of magic. At first glance it looks like ordinary sediment, cracked…
Humans Don’t Just Smell Odors — They Change Their Sniffs to Match Them, Study Finds
Humans rarely think about the quiet choreography of their own breathing. Yet every inhale, every subtle shift in rhythm, is…
People With Cystic Fibrosis Can Now Cut Daily Treatments and Still Stay Healthy, Study Finds
For generations, life with cystic fibrosis has meant hours of treatments each day. Families scheduled their lives around inhaled medications,…
Scientists Say a Mysterious Eruption Triggered the Pandemic That Killed Millions
The story of the Black Death has always felt like a catastrophe that arrived out of nowhere, a sudden dark…
Scientists Find a Way to Reverse Prostate Cancer Drug Resistance — And It Hinges on One “Undruggable” Enzyme
For years, scientists at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center had been chasing a mystery. Prostate cancer, even when treated…
Scientists Discover the Brain’s Shape-Shifting Cells—and They Change More Than Anyone Expected
For as long as neuroscience has tried to understand the brain, neurons have played the lead role in the story.…
Scientists Discover Melanoma Treatment Works Better at a Lower Dose — And Patients Live Three Times Longer
For years, the fight against malignant melanoma has relied on powerful immunotherapies delivered at doses set by long-standing clinical practice.…
Scientists Discover That Cancer May Begin When DNA “Roads” Collapse Inside Cells
Cancer is often described as a disease of mutations, a chaotic rewriting of the genetic script. But a new study…
Psilocybin Reduces Negative Thought Loops and Boosts Sensory-Motor Wiring, Study Finds
The story starts with a puzzle that has shadowed psychedelic research for years. Psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms,…
Scientists Discover 788 New Deep-Sea Species—Right Where the World Wants to Mine
Far below the surface, where light never travels and the sediment grows by only a thousandth of a millimeter each…
Scientists Build a “Quantum Antenna” That Sees the Invisible Terahertz World for the First Time
For decades, the terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum has been a kind of scientific no-man’s land. It sits quietly…
Forget 1s and 0s: This New Light Tech Could Carry ‘Enormous’ Information Per Photon
The story begins with a simple but bold idea. What if light could be shaped so precisely in space and…
The Coldest Stars in Space May Be Exposing a Hidden Force of Nature
Neutron stars are some of the strangest objects in the universe, the ultra-dense remnants left behind after massive stars explode.…
The ‘Iliad’ Was a Lie: UK’s Greatest Roman Mosaic Hides a Secret Story Lost for 2,000 Years
When the Ketton mosaic first emerged from the quiet soil of rural Rutland, it was hailed as a spectacular Roman…
Forgotten Pit Holds a 2,800-Year-Old Secret That Rewrites Mediterranean History!
The story begins not with a grand monument or a glittering artifact, but with a pit. In 1986, during an…
“Subjugators of the Sky”: Genetic Study Finally Solves the 4,000-Year Mystery of Asia’s Terrifying Cliff-Hanging Coffins
For centuries, the steep river gorges and mountain walls of Southeast and Southern Asia kept a silent vigil over a…
Ancient Humans Didn’t Hunt in Herds — and It May Explain Why Our Species Outlived Them
About 120,000 years ago, long before cities or writing or the familiar rhythm of modern life, the Levant was a…
Ancient Silver Bracelet Reveals Lost Secrets of Bronze Age Europe
When a single silver bangle was lifted from the earth in 1884, no one could have guessed it would one…