To researchers, the animals are hardly predatory villains; most are juveniles figuring out how to hunt. Encounters such as ...

The spacecraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean after a parachute failure, ending a bold experiment in space biology and ...

Unlike cookies, fingerprints can’t be deleted. They aren’t stored locally. They’re inferred, passively, every time your ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a young ant. Insidiously, the fungus orchestrated the ant’s demise. The ant ...

The construction workers weren’t looking for artifacts that morning. They were dredging the Korte Linschoten River—just another day, another load of clay—when a glint of iron caught someone’s eye.

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake. These lines in the mud are now pushing scientists to rethink the origin ...

Seasonal Body Image Dissatisfaction (SBID) was formally coined in a 2021 study, and the effect is remarkably pervasive.

When the archaeologists dated the boomerang in Poland, it was dated to 30,000 years ago. In the same area, a human thumb bone ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

California ground squirrels are as commonplace as the seeds, acorns, and grains they’re often seen nibbling. Yet, scientists ...

Even seemingly benign behavior can backfire if you live in bear country. A discarded drum lid, a backyard bird feeder, an ...

People in Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas reported sightings of a fireball overhead on Thursday afternoon, 26 June. It ...