A duo goes against the tide to explain an origin of human endurance
Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other primates lack.
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Multicolored ‘mosaic’ of mini farms surrounds Taiwan’s largest river — Earth from space
QUICK FACTS Where is it? Yunlin County, Chianan Plain, Taiwan [23.78563273, 120.44373747] What’s in the photo? A multicolored ‘mosaic’ of small, tightly compacted farms Which
‘The back of her head had been removed by a single blow from a sharp blade’: Archaeological clues are revealing the horrific lives and deaths of the people enslaved by Vikings
Slavery has existed for thousands of years, permeating ancient and modern societies across the world. The Vikings were no different. Enslaved people were valuable commodities
‘It gives us a glimpse of a different kind of Viking life’: Archaeologist Neil Price on the sea-kings, sorcerers and Sámi who lived during the Viking Age
In the early medieval period, the Vikings were just one part of a vast tapestry of Scandinavians who ruled, sailed, traded and fought around the
What happens when you lose your voice?
Losing your voice can feel like losing part of yourself. Can voice-cloning technology help people find themselves again?
Artemis II Crew at NASA Marshall
The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission visited NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama on Sept. 1, 2026.
Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence?
Everything that’s swept the world since the 2022 release of ChatGPT — “the AI economy”; data centers; chatbots acting as best friends, doctors, and mathematicians;
‘Autonomy always begins with something a human hands it’: Who’s responsible when an AI agent goes rogue?
An OpenAI agent was supposed to be researching public healthcare spending, but it broke into an Australian government website instead. The June 18 hack, which
1,200-year-old burial in Latvia holds people who died of ‘sharp force’ injuries, possibly from a Viking raid
Six people buried in a single grave in Latvia more than 1,000 years ago may have been killed in a bloody Viking raid, a new
Scarred blood vessels may be one clue to APOE4’s Alzheimer’s risk
Scientists know APOE4 raises Alzheimer’s risk. A surprising change in blood vessel cells may help explain how.
When climate change brings the heat, what happens to a mighty redwood?
In heat wave-like temperatures, coast redwoods’ photosynthesis slows down, which may put one of Earth’s most efficient carbon storers in jeopardy.
7 extraordinary Indigenous sites in the US, from Chaco Canyon to Chimney Rock
The prehistory of Indigenous Americans goes back tens of thousands of years before the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Bahamas , and recent
Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before Columbus
An Inuit carving of a European, dated to around AD 1350 — the earliest depiction of a European in the Western Hemisphere. (Image credit: Canadian
‘It could have been a very different history’: Researchers are finally starting to pin down how many Indigenous people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrived
When Christopher Columbus made landfall in the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492, he encountered Indigenous Lucayans living on the Bahamian island now called San Salvador.