Individuals along Brazil’s southern coast 5,000 years ago were hunting large whales. Evidence from Babitonga Bay in Santa Catarina reveals that Indigenous coastal communities were capturing massive cetaceans around a thousand years earlier than…
2025 MN45 might not sound particularly catchy or noteworthy, but it has piqued astronomers’ interest for one very specific reason: it is the fastest mini-planet of its size detected to date.
At 710 meters (2,297 feet), the asteroid is more than…
Filing your taxes, cleaning your inbox, and assembling flat-pack furniture. Life is full of boring but necessary tasks, and it is not always easy to find motivation.
Now, scientists writing in Current Biology believe they have identified a pathway…
Auditory stimulation may be an effective Alzheimer’s treatment, with animal studies suggesting it has the potential to flush out senile plaques associated with the disease.
Researchers writing in PNAS recently described the first non-human…
There has been an undeniable but (so far) inexplicable rise in colorectal — or bowel — cancer among younger people. Potential explanations involving E. coli and unprocessed food have been put forward, but as of yet, there is no definitive…
Once a towering giant of Antarctic ice, Iceberg A-23A is now riddled with pools of vivid blue meltwater as it drifts through the South Atlantic. Scientists say these watery blues are a sign that one of the longest-lived icebergs ever tracked may…
Some 60 primate species, including baboons, chimpanzees and vervet monkeys, express
In the 2023 movie Plane starring Gerard Butler, a commercial aircraft is caught in…
Scheduled to launch in early 2026, NASA’s Artemis 2 is part of the bold 21st-century vision for returning astronauts to the lunar surface
