A pigment in red hair may have a secret superpower: It can turn a toxic threat into a splash of color.
Scientists studying the orange-to-red melanin in bird feathers have found that its production can help prevent cellular damage.
The pigment…
Deep down in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, layer upon layer of archaeological evidence may show how modern humans lived alongside archaic humans. Years of excavation have brought the cave’s history to light, revealing a major…
Horned dinosaurs lived in Europe during the Late Cretaceous, despite being thought largely absent from the continent’s fossil record. A new study published in Nature shows that several European dinosaurs long classified as other plant-eaters…
With only about 1,000 mountain gorillas left on Earth, every birth matters. But in early January, trackers in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo witnessed something far more extraordinary than a single new arrival: a…
“This project will create jobs, spur local innovation, and advance American leadership in energy technology,” Urvi Parekh, head of global energy at Meta, said in a statement. “By investing in baseload nuclear energy, we’re helping build a…
The woolly mammoth is an iconic symbol of the Ice Age, and as it began to go extinct about 13,000 years ago, smaller populations remained on islands around Alaska and Russia until about 4,000 years ago, according to a new study in the Journal of…
NASA doesn’t often change course mid-mission. Astronauts’ schedules are planned down to the minute, spacecraft timelines are locked months in advance, and contingencies are carefully modeled long before launch. That’s why it is so…
Past mass extinctions, as devastating as they are, have shaped the vast biodiversity of today’s Earth by reshuffling the evolutionary cards. The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME), 445 million years ago, was the first of five mass…
These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea
