Forensic evidence suggests Paleo-Americans hunted mastodons, mammoths and other megafauna in eastern North America 13,000 years ago Animals that shared the landscape with humans disappeared as the...
Seeing dead fruit flies is bad for the health of fruit flies – and neuroscientists have identified the exact brain cells responsible For Drosophila melanogaster, their senses...
Glass: Neither a solid nor a liquid, this common yet complicated material is still surprising scientists Most glass is made by melting down soda ash, limestone...
Are you part robot? A linguistic anthropologist explains how humans are like ChatGPT – both recycle language Are we as different as we’d like to believe? Ledi...
If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later? A glimpse of a post-apocalyptic world. Bulgar/E+ via Getty Images Carlton Basmajian, Iowa State...
‘From Magic Mushrooms to Big Pharma’ – a college course explores nature’s medicine cabinet and different ways of healing People for millennia have used what grows around...
El Niño is back – that’s good news or bad news, depending on where you live Warm water along the equator off South America signals an El...
Kakhovka dam breach raises risk for Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant – receding waters narrow options for cooling The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant seen across the Dnieper River, which...
Brain tumors are cognitive parasites – how brain cancer hijacks neural circuits and causes cognitive decline Gliomas can form connections with distant areas of the brain, exploiting them...
Nearly 20% of the cultural differences between societies boil down to ecological factors – new research How much of a culture could be due to things like...
