They placed a hamster wheel in the wild to see whether mice would use it as they do in captivity. Not only did the wild mice ...

Some ecologists even refer to our current epoch as the “Pyrocene,” acknowledging how fire has altered the environment. But ...

Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...

Credit: Colossal Biosciences. A new conservation project in Dubai aims to preserve frozen tissue and DNA from threatened ...

The boy’s burial is as striking as his injuries. Hundreds of pierced shells formed a headdress. Ivory pendants and carved antlers accompanied him. A long flint blade—likely a prestige object—rested in ...

Researchers in South Korea have designed a polymer composite that keeps its structure even near 1,000 °C flames, potentially ...

Huge, dark pillars of stone rise from the dirt. They are perfectly hexagonal. They stand shoulder-to-shoulder like a ...

Space is a toxic cocktail of radiation and weightlessness that is hostile to terrestrial biology. As missions stretch from ...

In a coordinated experiment that stretched across borders and rat lifetimes, researchers in South Korea and Japan found no ...

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

Today, science has brought Zosia’s story back to life. Researchers from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland, along with ...

In a study published February 5th in PLOS Biology, researchers played piano sonatas by J.S. Bach to sleeping newborns (some ...