Ancient hominids made long road trips to collect stone for tools
A Kenyan site shows early hominids transported stone 13 kilometers for toolmaking as early as 2.6 million years ago.
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You may not really be allergic to penicillin. Here’s how to find out if you are.
As many as 1 in 5 Americans believe they have a penicillin allergy, but just a tiny fraction actually do. In recent years, it’s gotten
Medieval knight ‘Lancelot’ and his stunning stone tomb found under ice cream shop in Poland
Archaeologists found the body of a medieval knight underneath a tombstone that depicted him in full military regalia.
2.6 million-year-old stone tools reveal ancient human relatives were ‘forward planning’ 600,000 years earlier than thought
Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.
After a freeze, Trump administration reluctantly agrees to fund EV chargers
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he doesn’t agree with federal subsidies for high-speed EV chargers, but that his department “will respect Congress’ will” and release
Embryos small but mighty, first live videos show
Scientists have recorded a human embryo implanting in a womb in real time. The implications of how it happens could lead to more and better
What makes ‘life’ so hard to define? A developmental biologist weighs in
In this Back To School episode we consider the “List of Life”: the criteria that define what it is to be a living thing. Some
The oldest known black hole formed more than 13.3 billion years ago
The Webb telescope found that a far-off little red dot is the oldest known black hole, shrouded by gas that could help explain the ruby
Cold Cuts Crossword
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San Andreas fault could unleash an earthquake unlike any seen before, study of deadly Myanmar quake suggests
A study of March’s Myanmar earthquake has found that strike-slip faults don’t necessarily repeat past behavior, meaning the San Andreas fault could unleash a bigger
A braided stream, not a family tree: How new evidence upends our understanding of how humans evolved
Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than a branching tree.
‘It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens’: How the evolutionary record of Asia is complicating what we know about our species
As experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe
Say Cheese!
Eleven International Space Station crew members gather inside the International Space Station’s Unity module for a portrait on Aug. 3, 2025.
Three Whale Rock: Thailand’s 75-million-year-old stone leviathans that look like they’re floating in a sea of trees
Three Whale Rock is a geological formation and tourist attraction in Thailand’s Phu Sing Forest Park that looks remarkably like a small family of whales.