More than 200 meters underground in a Spanish cave, Romans carved prayers to a mysterious goddess into walls Ice Age people had marked…

We’ve been thinking about thinking and how it works in humans. Scientists are out there overturning old assumptions about human cognition…

Medicine told the post-menopausal ovary it could go home. The ovary apparently didn’t get the memo.

Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, arrived as a foreign body billions of years ago and proceeded to destroy almost every moon the planet had…

Somewhere inside MIT Lincoln Laboratory, there is a reel-to-reel audio recording of Air Force officials briefing scientists on what…

A rock on Mars, drilled in 2020 and patiently studied for years since, has just yielded the most diverse collection of organic molecules…

A newly discovered microbe doesn't split in two like ordinary cells. It grows its young inside itself, then bursts open to release them, and what's happening inside before that happens is stranger tha...

A newly discovered microbe doesn't split in two like ordinary cells. It grows its young inside itself, then bursts open to release them, and what's happening inside before that happens is stranger tha...

Ten people imagined familiar melodies without making a sound. What their neural activity revealed was detailed enough for researchers to reconstruct the actual notes.

Wired up in a lab for seven days, an ordinary garden plant kept sending structured pulses. What is it communicating?

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In the desert

Fossils said these two species died out thousands of years ago. Local communities never stopped saying otherwise, and it turns out they were right.

Everyone assumed the loudest person in the room was proof. Turns out the math was lying, and the most skilled people may be the most deluded about their limits.

Your brain contains cells that aren't yours, and may never have been. What exactly your mother's DNA is doing in there remains, somehow, an open question.

One airborne compound keeps every other female in a colony infertile, and it doesn't require anyone to be in the room to work. What else are we missing?

What do a pandemic that erased itself from memory, bull sharks with a decade-long romance, a dime-sized fossil mislabeled for decades, and a dying star that might be giving birth to a new universe hav...

Ten hot takes. One vote. Science journalism has never been more democratically absurd.

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New oversight panels and a whistleblower memo raise the stakes, but a still-unreleased helicopter encounter report leaves the biggest question untouched.

Ten hot takes. One vote. Science journalism has never been more democratically absurd.

The ovary stops making eggs and medicine calls it done. New research suggests it just switched departments. What is it actually doing?

The DNA said the same two sharks had pups together years apart. Bull sharks were supposed to be solitary. What else have we gotten wrong?

Big Bear's bald eagle Jackie is still in critical condition after her rescue, though she's alert, eating and "fighting" in rehab

A daddy longlegs with no venom and no web just pinned down a live frog bigger than itself. Scientists say this might be happening all over South American tropical forests.