A landslide in thawing permafrost has revealed 770,000-year-old buried ice In the headwall scarp of a landslide on Bylot Island in northeastern Canada, researchers uncovered the remnant ice of an anci...
This is the first study of copycat urination in an animal These chimps at a sanctuary in Japan display surprisingly contagious bathroom behavior. Kumamoto Sanctuary Hate waiting in line for the bathro...
If cigarettes contained very little of the chemical that keeps people smoking, it could help smokers move away from these deadly products. That’s the rationale behind a new rule proposed on January 15...
Even as firefighters are starting to gain ground on the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, residents there are just beginning to grapple with the emotional trauma of the disaster. The fires have, s...
It’s a pivotal moment for nuclear weapons. Tensions between the United States and Russia, the two major nuclear powers, are high. Longstanding nuclear pacts have crumbled. China, which trails well beh...
Gyrating objects should be hourglass-shaped to hold a hoop steady Experiments with hula-hooping robots revealed how the hoops stay up, providing some tips for humans aiming to perfect their technique....
One of the most extreme megadroughts has helped fuel California’s wildfires Prolonged droughts have become longer, more intense and more frequent in the last 30 years. A megadrought in southwestern No...
A meat-rich diet may have not emerged before the evolution of other groups like Homo Early human ancestors, Australopithecus africanus (illustrated), may have had primarily vegetarian diets, new resea...
Astronomers have determined the internal composition of a distant planet for the first time Disintegrating exoplanets, like the one illustrated here, spill their guts into space in a long cometlike ta...
After a year of rising bird flu cases among people in the United States, researchers are keeping a watchful eye on the H5N1 virus to slow further spread. Since early 2024, the country has recorded 66 ...
Ice cores hint at a volcanic eruption around the time of the burial in Stone Age Denmark More than 100 engraved stones unearthed in Denmark depict images of the sun. The stones, including the two show...
Studies in rats link high exposure to cancer, but there’s little science on its harm to people Some gummy and other candies get their bright color from the synthetic food dye Red No. 3, which the FDA ...
