Category: Science

Inca boys and girls chosen for human sacrifice trekked through Inca communities for thousands of miles on sacred pilgrimages before their ritual deaths, often near

Astronauts have grown a common crystal in space — but this extraterrestrial version is exhibiting a very uncommon behavior. Under a microscope, the crystal looks

A new snake’s unique head anatomy suggests early snakes were even more diverse than thought. This one was a rare burrower.

The object orbits a brown dwarf that orbits a star, and astronomers aren’t sure if it’s a planet, a moon — or something else entirely.

The patient: A 6-year-old boy in the Netherlands The symptoms: The child was receiving a blood transfusion as a treatment for lymphoblastic leukemia , a

Fifty years after Southern California’s Salton Sea formed due to an engineering mishap in 1905, the giant salt lake became a booming vacation destination. Nicknamed

Science word of the day: Abiogenesis Pronunciation: Ay-bye-oh-JEN’-ih-sis What it means: Abiogenesis is the emergence of life from nonliving matter through chemical processes. Scientists still

At least 1.4 million seagulls feed at landfills across North America, which aside from the nuisance it might pose, is also a threat to the

A new study combining European ice core data and historical records of the infamous Black Death pandemic of 1349-1353 shows metal mining and smelting have

Humans could learn from chimpanzees and bonobos, who turn to group members for physical comfort during tense moments.

Runoff from Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet could severely disrupt currents in the Atlantic Ocean that regulate the global climate, researchers say. But the fresh

This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist

The finding shows how life spreads between isolated deep-sea vents — and how closely those ecosystems are tied to the sunlit ocean.

Shigella causes about 450,000 U.S. infections each year. An experimental oral vaccine protected adults in a small human trial.