Category Science

The smashed and folded fossil doesn’t look like much. Mangled and misshapen, it’s difficult to believe that it’s actually the skull of a dinosaur. “This is a uniquely sucky specimen,”…

Natural selection is usually a term reserved for science textbooks and not for conversations about contemporary humans. For decades, scientists believed that human evolution had largely slowed to a crawl…

Humans like to think we sit at the top of the evolutionary ladder, largely because we have language, which is a system so flexible and expressive that it’s often taken…

As winter’s chill begins to melt away and warmer weather arrives, so too does the first major meteor shower of spring, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. Wednesday, April 15, 2026,…

Europe’s tallest active volcano, Mount Etna, may belong to an obscure group of volcanoes that are shaped by magma in an unorthodox way. Although Mount Etna provides endless research opportunities,…

Two of the most important elements of painting are color and technique. And while we can just take a trip to the local hobby store to purchase a rainbow of…

In 1907, an Australian naturalist spotted a shard of a bone from the Ice Age, buried in the sediment at Buchan’s Foul Air Cave in Victoria, Australia. Back then, the…

Besides their mission to support animal conservation, research, and public education, zoos also provide safe, tightly monitored spaces where animals can grow exceptionally old, reaching ages they would rarely, if…

One cloudy August morning in 2019, one hundred or so people hiked up an Icelandic mountainside to say their last goodbye to a glacier. Okjökull, or Ok, had once sprawled…

Family doesn’t always follow a family tree. There are people we grow up with who feel like family, even if there’s no biological connection. New research suggests that kind of…