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Sometimes, the face in front of us isn’t the one our brain is seeing
Scientists think Ice Age humans crossed to this Scottish island and stayed.
A new cosmetic trend lets people tattoo their corneas to change eye color.
A new study reveals the exhausting reality behind developmental prosopagnosia and how society often overlooks it.
Aztecs weren’t just warriors and priests, they were savvy traders.
This study is about chimps. But in a way, it's also about us.
Junk food ads math: 5 minutes equals 130 more kilocalories per day.
Rare earth elements are tiny yet essential parts of many of the technologies you use every day. New techniques are making their recovery from US sources increasingly viable.
Meet Valerie, a superdog that survived the Kangaroo island and its deadly snakes. It even gained weight in the wild.
A tiny new snail species echoes the angular spirit of modern art.
Some anesthetics and sedatives may trigger vivid sexual fantasies — or hallucinations of assault
The study found that restricting carbs can elicit the same favourable metabolic effects as fasting.
The saola’s newly sequenced genome offers hope for one of Earth’s rarest mammals.
AI cracked a wartime Enigma code in under 13 minutes.
Researchers at CERN have managed to knock enough protons off lead atoms to make gold.
New AI built by Chinese scientists can create 3D faces from DNA with alarming accuracy.
Flowers keep making the same mutation time and time again.
If you’ve scrolled through TikTok in the last few years, chances are you’ve seen it. A handsome young person (usually a man), mouth closed, pressing his tongue to the roof of his mouth, claiming this one move can sculpt your jawline and change your life. This is “mewing,” and the man behind it—Dr. Michael Mew—has […]
The strong pesticides sprayed on golf courses leech into the groundwater and scientists suspect this could increase the risk of Parkinson's.
A universal snakebite treatment may be within reach, thanks to an unlikely human experiment.
A lab-grown leather inspired by dinosaur skin sparks excitement—and scientific skepticism
A new archeology is being developed based on evidence of human activity in the Earth’s sedimentary record, and archeologists are helping to define the Anthropocene as a new stage in the geological record.
A Carboniferous beast is showing its face.
Climate related problems, from storms to health issues, are causing a wave of change in the insurance industry.
From whales to soil microbes, our planet’s living systems are fraying in silence.
This wild plant grows across South America and contains CBD.
Trees sync their bioelectric signals like they're talking to each other.
The extinct bird was so powerful it could kill a 400-pound animal with its talons.
For the first time, a deadly spinal tumor has been removed via the eye socket route.
A Michigan judge rebukes lawyer for filing documents with cartoon dragon watermark
A bold new theory could bridge quantum physics and gravity at last.
Land subsidence driven by groundwater overuse is putting millions at risk.
A strange embalming technique emerges from the annals of history.
Japan shows the world that 3D printing can save aging infrastructure even with limited labor and money.
An 80,000-year-old spear point rewrites what we thought we knew about Neanderthals.
A leading AI lab says we must decode models before they decode us
No decision just yet.
Conducting electricity as a lifestyle.
A tiny zircon crystal might just be one of the oldest Earth relics ever found.
Saving the ocean could be the only way
As the world ages, high blood sugar has emerged as a leading risk factor in developing dementia.
Baleen whales shift huge amounts of nutrients, including nitrogen, from high-latitude feeding waters to tropical breeding areas.
A particle accelerator and AI helped scholars read a scroll buried since 79 AD.
Rubber particles from climbing shoes may expose gymgoers to levels of pollution found on city streets
Researchers hijack cicadas' song organs to play music—including Pachelbel's Canon.
Tesla’s sales plunge across Europe as EV buyers turn elsewhere
Human fashion can be as powerful as millions of years of evolution – and it’s harming our pets.
A new mathematical proof connects atoms to ocean waves and jet streams.
Billions of years ago, this uranium went a bit crazy.
These horses served the Roman Empire and were buried with military precision.
