Category: General

A first-of-its-kind pterosaur fossil unearthed in China with its gut content intact has…

The growing global health crisis of superbug infections could undo decades of progress in…

The world of Bousso’s new theorem still departs from our universe in notable ways. For mathematical convenience, he assumed that there’s an unlimited variety of particles—an unrealistic assumption that makes some physicists wonder whether…

The problems started with six little red dots. Six small fuzzy spots, among thousands of others, were enough to suddenly bring everything into question.

The dots appeared in images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and, whichever…

While many science books would have you believe the Earth’s lower mantle—the layer deep below the crust—is smooth, it’s actually made up of a mountainous-like topography that moves and changes just like the crust above it….

Key Takeaways on Placental Mammals

• Placental mammals have a placenta, an organ that develops during gestation and bridges mother and fetus.

• The placenta provides nutrients to the fetus to develop in the womb, protecting the baby from the outside…

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January—some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history—one of the first things…

If you’ve ever struggled to keep up in spin class or wondered why sprint training feels extra brutal, you might be right to blame it on your genes — or more precisely, your ancient cousins’ genes.

A new study by researchers from the Max…

What was it like to live in ancient Egypt during an era of sweeping change? Although we can’t put ourselves in the shoes of ancient Egyptians, we at least know how one of them may have lived now that a whole genome from ancient Egypt has been…