Living in a dangerous world
This study isn’t the first evidence that ancient hominins dealt with lead in their environments. Two Neanderthals living 250,000 years ago in France experienced lead exposure as young children,…

This study isn’t the first evidence that ancient hominins dealt with lead in their environments. Two Neanderthals living 250,000 years ago in France experienced lead exposure as young children,…

NASA, the space agency best known for exploring other worlds, might soon change the way we drive on Earth. At its Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, engineers have spent years developing a groundbreaking wheel technology designed for…

By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter – the invisible stuff thought to make up more than a quarter of the cosmos – as they study a diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center…

Most people hear “brown recluse” and think of hospital visits and horror stories. A Kansas family lived in a house with more than two thousand of these spiders for five and a half years, and nobody was bitten.
A study documented 2,055 brown…

SpaceX will hit a big round-number milestone today (Oct. 18), and you can watch it happen live.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites is scheduled to launch from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base today,…

Lead exposure from modern chemical pollution is a well-documented threat to neurodevelopment and general health, yet a surprising new study reveals that this toxic heavy metal has, in fact, been impacting human evolution for more than two million…

This past Monday, October 13, Starship Version 2 launched for the last time, ending its nearly two-year run on a high note. The megarocket’s 11th suborbital test flight marked the final launch of this iteration of Starship, making way…

NASA’s plans to fly a spaceship alongside a potentially hazardous asteroid in 2029 will continue — for the next year, at least.
After threats of mission cancellation, the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft received a last-minute $20 million allocation in…

Fancy a pint? It’s a phrase that’s as fundamental to British culture as cups of tea, complaining about the weather and the Magna Carta.
The question possesses a special kind of gravity, one that reaches its peak strength at 5pm on a Friday,…

You don’t need a gym membership, dumbbells, or expensive equipment to get stronger.
Since the beginning of time, we’ve had access to the one piece of equipment that is essential for strength training – our own bodies.
Strength training…