A team of paleontologists at the Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, working with a colleague from the State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, both in China, has identified the oldest ...

The rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica appears to be driven by different processes under its floating ice shelf than researchers previously understood. Novel observations from where ...

Miracinonyx trumani is an extinct species of cheetah-like cat that roamed the North American prairies and steppe terrains more than 13,000 years ago.

Nature - Brain cells are crucial for triggering fights — but also become active when mice merely observe fights.

A brilliant new study on unkus, a type of standardized Inka tunic, has shed light on a rather important matter of socio-political organization – that of centralization of power.

The original vaccinations for COVID-19 induce potent antibodies that protect against SARS-CoV-2.

Right under our noses the whole time.

Tiny flies that pollinate cacaos are struggling, and this could affect our supply of chocolate

Large language models still struggle with basic reasoning tasks. Two new papers that apply machine learning to math provide a blueprint for how that could change.

The power of the second law The second law of thermodynamics is widely considered one of the most universally true physical laws. It dictates that the entropy, a measure of physical disorder, of any isolated system can never decrease over time. It adds an…

Silicon, the standard semiconducting material used in a host of applications—computer central processing units (CPUs), semiconductor chips, detectors, and solar cells—is an abundant, naturally occurring ...

Leaves from the Permian period curled up at night, fossils of symmetrical insect bites show.

Scientists in Australia have conducted a series of controlled experiment trials on 19 snakes across five genera in a sound-proof room.

Palmichnium gallowayi, a 460-million-year-old fossil trackway of a sea scorpion, from upstate New York, is one of the earliest signs of animal life on land.

A scathing blog post details dysfunctional life inside Google.

Archaeologists working in the northern Yucatan peninsula of Mexico have announced the discovery of a group of ancient structures near the 5th century AD Mayan city Chichen Itza.

For someone previously infected with COVID-19, their risk of hospitalization or death is 88% lower for at least 10 months compared to those who had not been previously infected, according to a systematic ...

Research led by scientists at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil has found that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can be detected in tears collected by swabbing. A swab is an absorbent cotton ...

Slipping and sliding on snowy or icy roads is dangerous. Salt and sand help melt ice or provide traction, but excessive use is bad for the environment. And sometimes, a surprise storm can blow through ...