Once a year, our planet passes through two separate streams of debris. Discarded by an ancient comet, the debris smashes into our atmosphere at around 65,000 miles per hour and burns brightly, creating a cascade of meteors in the sky. In fact, it…
Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out the relationships and adaptations of these “absolutely bonkers” herbivores

They look like tiny monkeys peering out from the mist. Known to scientists as Dracula, the…

You’ve gone to bed at your usual time, skipped that afternoon coffee, and made…

As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and…

Once a year, our planet passes through two separate streams of debris. Discarded by an ancient comet, the debris smashes into our atmosphere at around 65,000 miles per hour and burns brightly, creating a cascade of meteors in the sky. In fact, it…

Unaddressed pain can drive us to the most obscure practices. A recent case of an 82-year-old woman proved that point: inspired by local folktales, she consumed eight live frogs, hoping to relieve her lower back pain.
The story, which ended in a…


Shipwrecks from ancient times have opened up a page of history that tells us how different cultures collaborated. A treasure trove of sunken cargo that was recently found in the Mediterranean, for instance, tells a multi-century story of maritime…

In the month of October, many organizations use the color pink to raise awareness for breast cancer. Women are encouraged to do regular home exams and to attend their annual mammograms.
For men, prostate cancer is also common. But there isn’t…