Category Science

Images of turtles tangled in nets or fish choked by bags are the most obvious signs that plastic pollution is harming our oceans. But plastic isn’t just dangerous because of…

When Neanderthals and modern humans met tens of thousands of years ago, they left behind a genetic legacy that most people of non-African ancestry still carry today. But a new…

After fertilization, the gametes within the egg prepare to coordinate the formation of a new life. Genomicists have traditionally thought that this period, before a coordinating process called zygotic genome…

While collecting adult specimens of the common ornamental jellyfish family Malagazziidae in the shallow waters of Nagasaki and Yamaguchi Prefectures in Japan, researchers noticed a feature they had never seen…

With thousands of papers and studies being published daily, how do you know whether your research has made any waves in the field? How is actual “impact” or “influence” measured,…

For decades, researchers have puzzled over the biological oddity of female caribou. Unlike all other deer species, female caribou have antlers, just like the males. Explanations have ranged from defense…

Did the Moon have a strong magnetic field in its early history, or a weak one? Researchers have debated that question for years. A new study in Nature Geoscience now…

Stone Age graves often carry remarkable finds, like symbolic objects and clothing bestowed on the dead. A fascinating example of this is at the Skateholm cemeteries in southern Sweden, where…

When you picture Venice, you probably imagine gondolas gliding past centuries-old palaces. What you don’t expect to see is a bottlenose dolphin playing in the water in front of St.…

At a mass grave in Serbia, an assemblage of human remains sheds light on a ruthless Iron Age massacre that spared absolutely no one. The most horrific aspect of this…