Category: Science

Stone Age people in Macedonia created goddess figurines whose bottom half was a house.

Paleontologists Susannah Maidment and Chinzorig Tsogtbaatar share details about some of the cool dinosaurs discovered last year.

A burial mound in Turkey may have held the remains of a member of King Midas’s family. But not all experts are convinced.

A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

Webb’s image of the enormous stellar jet in Sh2-284 provides evidence that protostellar jets scale with the mass of their parent stars—the more massive the

The oldest river predates the dinosaurs. But how do we know this?

A new study reveals that nerve cells receive periodic infusions of mitochondria from neighboring cells — and this may point to a new way of

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

The hydrochloric acid in your stomach can burn through metal — so why doesn’t it burn through your stomach?

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland’s 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what

A new DNA analysis of the mummies of historical Indigenous Yakuts reveals resistance to 17th-century Russian conquest.

Images depicting NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket are projected onto the Washington Monument as part of an event to kick off the nation’s 250th

Nearly 200 years ago, the physicists Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes put the finishing touches on a set of equations that describe how fluids

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It’s possible this is a newly found type of star-forming