During the Last Glacial Maximum, tropical regions with lush vegetation would have looked completely different. The last Ice Age reached its peak about 20,000–21,000 years ago, and massive ice sheets ...

Many pregnant women around the world are low in vitamin D. This is a very common issue that has prompted inquiries over the ...

A new study, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, involving a virtual evacuation test with 382 volunteers, reveals a surprising twist: People tend to latch onto what the crowd as a ...

Think of a small fossil as the equivalent of a homemade video of prehistoric life. Fossils formed when sea organisms began their great proliferation more than half a billion years ago rarely contained ...

Consider flipping through numerous videos on TikTok within mere minutes—some news item, some dancing fad, some culinary trick and some comedy sketch. The content might grab your attention momentarily, ...

From ancient graves to stories of survival on the frontier, signs of human flesh-eating turn stomachs, even as they raise questions. Anthropologists have uncovered bones cut up with axes and ...

Cities from Paris to Prague have sweltered under record-breaking heat waves in recent years. In fact, Western Europe's average summer temperature has climbed by roughly 2.3°C since 1980, about triple ...

Imagine technology that could let you walk in someone else's shoes, changing not just your perspective, but your deepest, most automatic biases. For years, researchers have explored virtual reality's ...

Imagine a world the size of Neptune, but instead of following the orderly path of its neighbors, it is racing headlong against the flow of its own solar system. In the case of the exoplanet TOI-1710 b ...

AI chatbots like ChatGPT have made their way into college life, sparking an important debate: Do these tools actually help students become better thinkers, or are they just a shortcut? Universities ...

Think of an athlete eyeing the finish line—could a single shot of caffeine be the difference between a podium finish and a personal best? For decades, runners and cyclists have treated the stimulant ...

Hidden beneath the scorched expanse of the central Libyan Sahara lies a prehistoric graveyard that was once a lush, green gateway to a continent. For decades, the origin of Africa's higher primates ...