Learn why purrs say more about a cat's identity than its meows, and how domestication forever changed the way cats ...

Learn how the discovery of a young planet orbiting two suns is revealing how worlds form and survive in binary star systems.

Learn the untold story of the hammock, and how it was used by both Indigenous cultures and European colonizers.

Learn more about how researchers can take evidence from the past to better shape our idea of what Neanderthals looked like.

Learn more about the creation of fire, and how new artifacts show that fire was used tens of thousands of years earlier than ...

Learn how chemical clues reveal a mosasaur was hunting in freshwater rivers as the Cretaceous seaway receded.

Meet Salwasiren qatarensis, a small, ancient sea cow species whose fossils were found in Qatar, in one of the world’s biggest ...

Learn more about brown dwarfs, the cosmic misfits that blur the line between planet and star.

Learn what happens to cells inside the nose during an RSV infection, and why infants are so vulnerable to the virus.

Learn about theobromine, a chemical compound in dark chocolate that is linked to anti-aging.

Learn how a particle born in the sun’s core left a measurable flash of light two kilometers beneath Earth’s surface.

Learn how chemical signatures in the Hjortspring boat’s caulking pointed researchers toward its Baltic origins.