Category Science

A curved slab of bone pulled from a remote fossil site called Jenguebi, deep in Niger’s central sand sea, revealed something paleontologists had not seen in more than a century:…

Eight skiers were killed, and one remains missing after a massive avalanche tore through a popular winter tourist area north of Lake Tahoe on Feb. 17, 2026, marking the deadliest…

Running can be a great way to keep the body moving and to stay in shape. But extreme endurance running, or ultramarathon running, can also have adverse effects on the…

Earthquakes are usually thought of as one-way events. Stress builds up deep underground, a fault snaps, and seismic ruptures race outward from their point of origin, shaking the ground as…

A small reef fish may be doing something scientists once thought was limited to mammals like dolphins and great apes. In a new study, researchers report that cleaner wrasse —…

Each year, the world produces upward of 450 million metric tons of plastic waste — far more than the combined weight of every person on Earth, according to Our World…

Experts estimate that around 80 percent of the risk of developing colorectal cancer comes from our environment, steering researchers to investigate the role microorganisms play in the disease. While searching…

A broken tooth remains lodged in the face of a duck-billed dinosaur that died 66 million years ago. That fragment, preserved in the skull of Edmontosaurus, has now been identified…

An archaeological site in the Middle East now stands as one of the oldest areas that humans occupied outside of Africa, a distinction that has been set in stone by…

For millions of households, cats are family. Now, new genetic research suggests they may also help scientists better understand cancer. In a study published in Science, researchers analyzed tumors from…