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Stone Age people may have worn flip-flops over 75,000 years ago

Unearthed ancient footprints challenge our understanding of footwear history.

What are the most injury-prone sports? Most are safer than you think

Study reveals that the benefits of most sports, including those seen as dangerous, far outweigh the slim chance of injury – but which activities top the list?

These ancient farmers learned how to surf and turf — while almost no one else did

Most communities changed. This one didn't.

Your personality can have a major impact on your relationship with healthcare

What does your psychology say about *your* health?

World's oldest water is 1.6 billion years old -- and this scientist tasted it

Apparently, it tastes 'very salty and bitter'.

For the first time, researchers have shown that wild chimps can also undergo menopause

Study looks at over 100 chimps living in a national park in Uganda

Roosters might be able to recognize themselves in the mirror, showing signs of developed cognition

Only a few animals have so far passed the mirror self-recognition test. This could have important moral implications.

Mars' hidden magma layer reshapes our understanding of the Red Planet

NASA's InSight data reveals a 150-km molten layer in Mars' mantle, reshaping our understanding of its internal structure and magnetic field."

Archaeologists discover amazing 7,000-year-old shark-tooth knives in Indonesia

Attributed to the enigmatic Toalean culture, these blades hint at rituals and warfare from an era before Neolithic farmers reached Indonesia.

Listen to the sound of Pando, a tree as large as an entire forest

Pando's "acoustic portrait" reveals new intimate details about the inner workings of the world's largest organism.

This Halloween, do the right thing -- fight food waste and eat your pumpkin

The scariest monster this Halloween is food waste.

Venus likely had plate tectonics like Earth. Could this be a clue for ancient life?

Could Venus have hosted life?

New superconducting camera with 400,000 pixels can spot the Universe's dimmest lights

The camera offers unparalleled precision in capturing faint celestial lights.

This superatom is the world's fastest semiconductor

The superatom can shuttle information-carrying particles twice as fast as electrons travel in silicon.

Earthquake in Mexico unearths spectacular Aztec serpent's head relic

It still has its painted colors from hundreds of years ago.

Futuristic bionic hand syncs with the brain and skeleton, bridging robotics and biology

This artificial hand has transformed the life of a women living with a below elbow amputation. Can it bring the same positive change for others?

Globetrotting seabird catches 11-hour ride over 1,000 kilometers on a typhoon

Taking 'riders on the storm' the the next level.

Bitcoin is even worse for the environment than we thought

It's not just greenhouse gas emissions. Bitcoin is affecting land and water quality, too.

Much of the craters on Mars today could have once been habitable rivers

It’s an important development in the search of life on the Red Planet

Wartime deepfakes are the new face of propaganda. Can we still trust our eyes?

New study tries to make sense of the evolving world of deepfake misinformation in wartime news.

14-year-old prodigy who invented soap for skin cancer named 'America's Top Young Scientist'

Heman's inspiration for his invention came from his childhood in Ethiopia, where he witnessed the dangers of prolonged sun exposure.

In pain? Your favorite bittersweet tunes could work literally like medicine

Your favorite "bittersweet and emotional" songs were found to work best against physical pain.

Catapult meant to launch WWII planes discovered by archaeologists in Britain

Talk about a way to launch planes.

LIGO can now detect 60% more gravitational waves thanks to 'quantum squeezing' of light

Thanks to new 'light squeezing' technology, LIGO can detect 60% more gravitational waves then before.

Can we generate energy from chicken feathers?

Researchers are working on turning food waste into energy.

How sperm cells defy Newton's third law of motion

The world of biology holds surprises, like cells that challenge the very fabric of Newtonian principles.)

Scientists discover ancient landscape larger than Belgium beneath Antarctic ice

Beneath the Antarctic expanse, researchers have found a landscape frozen in time, providing clues about the continent's history and future challenges.

Art's oldest secret? How a 1455 painting unveiled a Stone Age mystery

Is this an artifact, a weapon, or just some random stuff that Jean Fouquet added to his work to grab your attention?

Scientists make the most water-slippery surface in the world

Scientists believe it’s the slipperiest liquid surface in the world

Mummified mice discovered atop Mars-like sky-high Andean volcanoes

Study rules out ties to Incan rituals, indicates mice ascended on their own

1970s tech in interstellar space: How NASA keeps Voyagers alive against all odds

Is it possible to fix a spacecraft billions of miles from home?

Vaccine targets the deadliest hospital superbugs that are immune to antibiotics

Could one vaccine protect patients from the many lethal superbugs in hospitals?

A warning from Sable Island: small islands may be losing their water lifeline

Study looks at Sable Island as an example of what is happening to many other islands

Academia is pushing women away from science with toxic work environments

This happens at all levels of women's careers.

Ancient human relatives may have been cannibals 1.45 million years ago

A butchered hominin fossil suggests our ancestors had a dark past.

QR codes are about to make recycling a lot easier

Recycling can be confusing and inefficient. Technology may improve that.

Ancient grenades discovered by the Great Wall of China

Talk about an explosive find!

How humans broke a natural law that governed ocean life for millions of years

For millions of years, one of the largest power law distributions known in nature has governed marine life -- that's until humans came along.

Invasive cannibalistic toads are adapting so fast they're pushing the limits of evolution

Australian cane toads evolve rapidly, with tadpoles turning cannibalistic and hatchlings speeding up development in response.

X-rays show the difference between a $5 and Apple's $129 USB-C cable

The difference can be startling. Is the price worth it though?

AI makes first discovery of a supernova all on its own

We're witnessing the birth of a new era in astronomy, where humans may take the back seat for the first time.

Iconic African statues were made with German metal traded for slaves

Talk about a historical plot twist.

Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel -- and 4x lighter

Regular glass is brittle and fragile. But pure glass coated on DNA is a different beast entirely.

No, an Everest-sized comet isn't heading towards Earth. Here's what you need to know instead

It's not a "devil comet".

Radio bursts from 8 billion years ago could reveal the Universe's true mass

An ancient fast radio burst (FRB) may provide answers to the challenge of determining the universe's mass

What the "Ring of Fire" eclipse looked like from space: in the shadow of the moon

The 2023 annular solar eclipse cast a huge shadow over North America as seen by a weather satellite.

The nightmare that keeps Anthony Fauci up at night: Why we mustn't forget

We must remember the pandemic and the lessons it brought.

Meet Meta’s bizarre million-dollar celebrity AI chatbots

Does Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have a secret plan to replace celebrities with their AI counterparts in the future?

In just seven years, this island went from barren to blossoming

Wild goats and rats used to rule Redonda. Now, the island is a symbol of rewilding.

Ancient Europeans ate seaweed thousands of years before it became a trendy 'superfood'

Seaweed was popular in Europe long before it became a hit in Asia.

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