Category: Science

A new analysis uncovers traces of poison on the South African arrowheads, pushing back the timeline for poisoned weapons by more than 50,000 years.

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory much larger than it

Young, infected Lasius neglectus ants will send out an altruistic “kill me” signal to worker ants, a new study finds, as part of a strategy

The federal government has released new dietary guidelines, introducing an emphasis on consuming meat and dairy and avoiding highly processed foods.

Archaeologists have announced their discovery of a metal hoard that contained an extremely rare example of a Celtic battle trumpet.

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired prey during long hunts.

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution more generally.

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, as seen here in this image released on Dec. 18, 2025. This image

A man visited a hospital because of bladder discomfort, and his doctors discovered a remarkably large bladder stone.

Read a story about dogs, and you may remember it the next time you see one bounding through a park. That’s only possible because you

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic evolution.

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Results show that players’ choices echo predator-prey patterns seen in wildlife, though scientists stress the limits of the analogy.

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need