
1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus face was just reconstructed — and its mix of old and new traits is complicating the picture of human evolution
A never-before-seen Homo erectus face reveals a complex picture of early human evolution.

By Tia Ghose published
The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

By Elizabeth Howell published
Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

By Sharmila Kuthunur published
A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova."

By Jamie Carter published
Discover the highlights of the Northern Hemisphere’s winter night sky with our guide to the top celestial sights to enjoy through binoculars between November 2025 and January 2026.

By Skyler Ware published
Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals.

By Harry Baker published
Earth from space A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory into "survival mode."

By Skyler Ware published
Lava rubble at the bottom of the sea is acting like a giant "sponge" for carbon dioxide, ancient cores reveal.

By Sascha Pare published
Scientists made a unique discovery in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: dozens of fossilized bee nests inside rodent bones that were deposited by owls thousands of years ago.

By Harry Baker published
Earth from space A 2022 astronaut photo shows a thick blanket of snow covering Yellowstone Lake, transforming the frozen body of water into a featureless white void. But below the ice lie some of Earth's hottest hydrothermal vents.

By Sabrina C. Higgins, Cara Tremain published
Archaeologists discovered artifacts for sale in a thrift shop. They decided to create a college course on what to do about them.

By Joan Taylor published
The modern Christmas themes of peace and joy were in short supply amid the ‘dislocation and danger’ of ancient Judea – as they are in today’s fractured world too.

By Gerlinde Bigga published
DNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves, research shows.

By Whitney Isenhower published
The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple times in a remote Samoan rainforest.

By James Price published
A small study reveals that cats greet male owners more vocally than female ones. But the findings could be a result of cultural norms among the participants, rather than a universal cat behavior, scientists say.

By Skyler Ware published
Pumas in Patagonia, Argentina are eating penguins in a national park — and it's changing how the big cats are interacting with each other.

By Sarah Wild published
Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic conditions.

By RJ Mackenzie published
Blood tests that look for over a dozen cancers are being developed. But how soon will they help patients?

By Payal Dhar published
By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.

By Tantse Walter published
Buying guides Don't let anyone else choose your next telescope, camera or binoculars — these are important pieces of equipment that you should buy for yourself

By Ashley Hamer published
Humans grow tall in spurts, but what's our fastest period of growth?

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Extraordinary images of our sublime universe

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By Roland Moore-Colyer published
AI slop, chatbots and agentic AI are changing the internet, and could transform it beyond recognition, experts say.

By Tia Ghose published
Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them.

By Nicoletta Lanese published
How well do you know that organ between your ears? Test your recognition of neuroscience terms with this word search.

By Rich Owen published
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