This study is about chimps. But in a way, it's also about us.

Junk food ads math: 5 minutes equals 130 more kilocalories per day.

Researchers at CERN have managed to knock enough protons off lead atoms to make gold.

Flowers keep making the same mutation time and time again.

A Carboniferous beast is showing its face.

Climate related problems, from storms to health issues, are causing a wave of change in the insurance industry.

From whales to soil microbes, our planet’s living systems are fraying in silence.

Land subsidence driven by groundwater overuse is putting millions at risk.

Conducting electricity as a lifestyle.

A tiny zircon crystal might just be one of the oldest Earth relics ever found.

As the world ages, high blood sugar has emerged as a leading risk factor in developing dementia.

Billions of years ago, this uranium went a bit crazy.

If you use a lot of emojis, you'll want to read this.

Many traits we learn as 'genetic facts' are more folklore than fact.

Forget electricity — this new AI chip from Penn learns using light.

High in the Peruvian Andes, archaeologists uncovered snuff tubes containing traces of hallucinogens.

Researchers used over 700 ancient Chinese poems to trace 1,400 years of ecological change

Do you agree with this approach?

North Korean IT operatives are gaming the global job market. This simple question has them beat.

A ghost from time past is about to return to Earth. But it won't be smooth.

Denmark hopes to pass a law prohibiting publishing deepfakes without the subject's consent.

Ice Age humans mastered fire with astonishing precision.

The revelation has sparked outrage across the internet.

At a beach in England, soda tabs, zippers, and plastic waste are turning into rock before our eyes.

Tardigrades just got cooler.

It's all because of tea.

Public opinion may be swaying you a lot more than you think.

Researchers found an alarming rise in antibiotic-resistant infections among children.

Two groundbreaking studies challenge the old narrative that cats followed early farmers into Europe.

Imagine pouring a glass of milk for your child and wondering if it’s safe.

It sounds like a scene from gothic fiction, but it’s real.

Microbes can brew food in space — a game-changer for astronauts.

But can machines really grasp justice, fairness, and human rights?

Meet "olo": a vivid, hyper-saturated blue-green that can't be captured by screens or paint.

Even chemistry gets side-eye now. Trust in science is crumbling across America's ideology.

They used declassified US documents to develop the technology.

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Archaeologists have uncovered a reeking, violet-stained factory where crushed sea snails once fueled the elite’s obsession with royal purple.

A mistranslated term and a scanning glitch birthed the bizarre phrase “vegetative electron microscopy”

Decades before microplastics made headlines, a caddisfly larva was already incorporating synthetic debris into its home.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. We're not quite there.

Uhm, did we all jump to Star Trek or something?

RFK Jr just declared war on decades of autism research—armed with no data, a debunked myth, and a deadline.

Forget neat planetary orbits — this newly discovered exoplanet circles two brown dwarfs at a right angle.

A lab in Tokyo just grew a piece of chicken that not only looks like the real thing — it...

Some people claim same-sex attraction is "unnatural." Biology says otherwise

Investments in geological mapping paid off big time for Americans.

It's probably the largest flood in our planet's history.

In a remarkable new study, crows demonstrated an intuitive grasp of geometry—identifying irregular shapes without training.

Imported holy water was linked to rare European cholera infections.