The global fight against extreme poverty used to be a success story. In 1981, a staggering 41% of the world’s population ...

A million years of kitchen accidents may have forced the human immune system to evolve.

Founded in 2021, Colossal is best known for its controversial quest to revive extinct creatures such as the woolly mammoth, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Observational studies have often linked low testosterone to heart disease. Those studies are a bit misleading, the authors of ...

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

Today, science has brought Zosia’s story back to life. Researchers from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland, along with ...

Crucially, this isn’t just career criminals returning to old habits. The study found that cancer drives individuals with clean records to break the law for the first time. The diagnosis acts as a ...

Space is a toxic cocktail of radiation and weightlessness that is hostile to terrestrial biology. As missions stretch from ...