Imagine you’re in south-east Cape York Peninsula, heading north from the tiny town of Laura…
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes, seemingly left by Indigenous…
I was settling into one of those airport activity tables with high stools and electric outlets at my flight’s gate, waiting for the agent to announce boarding, when I felt a gathering storm at the apex of my butt cheeks. This was my last flight…
New data released on Thursday from the world’s largest study of blood molecules from
Scientists have found evidence suggesting that kissing dates back up to 21 million years and that our ape ancestors and Neanderthals likely locked lips, research published Wednesday said.
Kissing has long presented an evolutionary puzzle to…
After the temporary shutdown of the US government, NASA has finally started its nonessential work back up. It’s starting off with a bang: The agency called a press conference to show its hitherto reserved images of the interstellar object…
Learn how faults beneath the Earth's surface can heal themselves after slowly releasing stress from the movement of tectonic plates.
There are many things people would rather endure than a colonoscopy. But when it comes to gut health, taking this physical approach by literally looking inside the intestines is still the established method. How great would it be if we could…
For decades, the story of Easter Island has been used as a cautionary ecological tale: people cut down their own trees, chaos ensued, and the society collapsed. The long-standing myth paints the Rapa Nui people as relentless tree-cutters who…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery.
While investigating…