The global fight against extreme poverty used to be a success story. In 1981, a staggering 41% of the world’s population ...

A million years of kitchen accidents may have forced the human immune system to evolve.

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New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

New excavations and geomagnetic data from the Eilsleben site in Germany reveal a massive, fortified outpost dating back to ...

Researchers in South Korea have designed a polymer composite that keeps its structure even near 1,000 °C flames, potentially ...

Today, science has brought Zosia’s story back to life. Researchers from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland, along with ...

They placed a hamster wheel in the wild to see whether mice would use it as they do in captivity. Not only did the wild mice ...

The boy’s burial is as striking as his injuries. Hundreds of pierced shells formed a headdress. Ivory pendants and carved antlers accompanied him. A long flint blade—likely a prestige object—rested in ...

In a coordinated experiment that stretched across borders and rat lifetimes, researchers in South Korea and Japan found no ...

Space is a toxic cocktail of radiation and weightlessness that is hostile to terrestrial biology. As missions stretch from ...

Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...