Category: Science

Researchers have extracted DNA from a 50,000-year-old tooth belonging to an African antelope, setting a record for the oldest DNA ever retrieved from sub-Saharan Africa

Scientists in Australia are deep-freezing koala eggs and sperm as a “genetic backup” to save the wild population from future extinction. The backup could be

A glowing landscape of gas and dust is heated and illuminated by a thriving population of young stars in the LH 95 region of the

Clinical trial results show an experimental drug lowered tau levels in the brain and slowed some memory loss, but the data came with a surprise

Atmospheric rivers bring heavy rain and floods, but if they don’t come around, it could mean drought. A new global map reveals little-known pathways.

The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the early universe.

Extreme coastal flooding events are occurring far more frequently in our warming world than ever before, threatening countless communities that will only become more vulnerable

QUICK FACTS Where is it? Over the Bahamas What’s in the photo? The space shuttle Atlantis, preparing to dock with the International Space Station (ISS)

NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

When I was first learning to write, my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror. Being left-handed, I

Archaeologists have found five pairs of iron shackles at a 2,300-year-old Celtic site in France ‪—‬ a discovery that suggests the small settlement was frequented

Interstellar space just got a little sweeter: A type of sugar called erythrulose has been found near the center of the Milky Way, according to

Researchers looking for the origins of left-right dominance in the brain found no innately better motor skills on either side.

Two “superpuff” planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as cotton candy.