These structures are thousands of years old and the reasons why they were built are still poorly understood.

Luckily, no loss of life or damage to property has been reported so far.

Robots are far away from replacing doctors, but they're still nifty.

Dinosaurs evolved hard-shell eggs independently three times, the team adds.

They look pretty, too.

Children respond negatively to moving homes.

Room's a mess again? It's physics's fault.

It's not meant as a full replacement for treatment, but it does help children manage their AHDH.

Events such as wildfire spread birds -- and their songs -- around.

Better understanding of such fossils lets us peer into the geological past.

With our online activity rising to such prominence in our lives, many people are looking to protect both their privacy...

It helps disperse heat and reflect sunlight.

Average temperatures over land set a new record, while ocean temperatures ranked only second highest.

Whether or not this makes the virus more transmissible in society isn't yet clear.

So shiny.

The dinosaur belonged to a family of pterodactyls called tapejarids.

A preventive treatment could prevent a lot of deaths.

They seem to like city life.

We have a desire to help hardwired into us.

Patients with type 1 diabetes currently need daily injections of insulin to manage the disease.

New research from ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australia, says we'll see longer and more frequent droughts due...

It's the deepest confirmed sighting of any cephalopod.

Our mental state does have an effect on the hair, it seems.

Cleaner air might make for cleaner waters, too.

Its a bad time to be a tree.

The fossil is around 75 million years older than the oldest millipede we've found before.

The ability to disconnect from the environment, in a reversible way, is a central feature of sleep.

During an asteroid impact, angles matter.

Understanding how genetics influences problem drinking can help us help those at risk.

If it works, it can help keep people safe and lower pressure on the medical system.

Please stop, plastics.

The infant was too small for surgery, so doctors bought it some time.

As visitors are quarantining at home, the Death Valley national park is teeming with life. It's far from an exception...

All areas of life are affected by the pandemic, even some most of us don't really give that much thought...

"In summary, our study demonstrates that presymptomatic patients have high viral load shedding and can easily contaminate environments," says the...

An antibody isolated from a SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) survivor after the 2003 epidemic could pave the way towards...

One unexpected effect of the COVID-19 pandemic is that people became really interested in raising their own poultry for eggs.

The findings could radically alter our understanding of this condition, alongside other autoimmune disorders.

Masks alone can have a dramatic impact on the virus' ability to spread.

The coating could make equipment safer and usable for longer.

Not all birds are of a feather, it turns out.

"It's on the Internet so it must be true". Not.

This could be used in fields ranging from medicine to space exploration.

These are not the headlines I like to write.

New research in Sicily has found human-associated bacteria in underground caves.

Some rising tides sink all boats.

Fossilized behaviors are extremely rare finds.

It's not yet deployable on a mass scale, but at least we know it works.

Warmer, wetter tropical soil increases microbial activity -- which belch out CO2.

"We believe Jurassic Park was wrong about raptor behavior," say the authors.