Category Science

With only about 1,000 mountain gorillas left on Earth, every birth matters. But in early January, trackers in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo witnessed something…

Horned dinosaurs lived in Europe during the Late Cretaceous, despite being thought largely absent from the continent’s fossil record. A new study published in Nature shows that several European dinosaurs…

Deep down in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, layer upon layer of archaeological evidence may show how modern humans lived alongside archaic humans. Years of excavation have…

NASA doesn’t often change course mid-mission. Astronauts’ schedules are planned down to the minute, spacecraft timelines are locked months in advance, and contingencies are carefully modeled long before launch. That’s…

Octopuses have the incredible ability to quickly change and adapt their skin to camouflage themselves in their surroundings — an ability researchers have been working to adapt to synthetic materials.…

The boundary between viruses and cellular life may be thinner than once thought. A new study describes a giant virus that infects amoebae and replicates in a way that closely…

As more lunar landers start to aim for the moon, they may contaminate craters that hold clues to the origin of life. When spacecraft land on the moon, the exhaust…

If you’ve ever tried to casually mention a walk without triggering a full-body tail quake, you already know your dog is a master of pattern recognition. New research suggests that…

Hunters in southern Africa 60,000 years ago, may have been turning simple stone-tipped arrows into chemically enhanced weapons. A new finding suggests poison use was already part of hunting technology…

Along Morocco’s Atlantic coast, hominin fossils dated to about 773,000 years ago have been recovered from a cave sequence. The remains date to around the time — and likely just…