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Fossils of ancient creatures doing anything are rare. This one is absolutely unique.

In Louisiana, high school starts at 7:30 am. Research shows that is at least an hour too early.

With this unique opportunity to create a totally new world, why does the metaverse already feature such old-world concepts?

It’s the origin of our entire observable Universe, but it’s still not the very beginning of everything.

Mutations that confer malaria resistance occur more frequently in people who live in regions where the disease is endemic.

The cognitive scientist argues the current AI environment is failing us as consumers and a society. But it’s not too late to change course.

Can a non-native species be a friend instead of a foe?

Participation in community science programs has skyrocketed during COVID-19 lockdowns.

A recent advance in 3D imaging techniques helped spark the biggest ever discovery of North American cave art.

Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.

Pokémon has people wandering the world to enslave wild and magical creatures so they can fight in painful blood sports. What’s fun about that?

The ‘Monkeydactyl’ was a flying reptile that evolved highly specialized adaptations in the Mesozoic Era.

Gain-of-function mutation research may help predict the next pandemic — or, critics argue, cause one.

The famous cognition test was reworked for cuttlefish. They did better than expected.

While a squirrel’s life may look simple to human observers – climb, eat, sleep, repeat – it involves finely tuned cognitive skills.

From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.

Pando, which is Latin for “I spread,” is a single organism spanning some 106 acres.

Setting resolutions for the new year means you think the future is up to you — but is it?

Scientists find a new species of flower in a remote part of Hawaii.

In “Off the Edge”, journalist Kelly Weill dives down the strange rabbit hole of the flat-Earther community.

In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.

For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.

Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.

Technology has advanced at a blinding pace in the past 150 years. That won’t always happen.

Linguistic laws are remarkably versatile and have applications in ecology, microbiology, epidemiology, demographics, and geography.

Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.

Scientific pluralism is the notion that some questions must be approached from many angles. How can we integrate these scientific models?

Studio Ghibli movies celebrate the natural world using a very Japanese mixture of Shinto, Buddhist, and Daoist themes.

From forecasting stock prices to diagnosing disease, Swarm AI enables better group decisions.

“I watched closely for the sun or stars to appear, to correct my chronometer, on the accuracy of which our lives and the success of the journey would depend.”