A workout method that alternates short bursts of vigorous exercise with brief recovery…
Tiger shark attacks in Hawaiian waters spike every October, with the month accounting for as…
The outline is faint and faded. It’s a human hand, though it’s a little claw-like, too.
Found in a cave on a satellite island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, this stencil represents a memory — a memento of a population that may have embarked on…
“Size matters” sounds like a tabloid cliché, but for evolutionary biologists the size of the human penis is truly a puzzle.
Compared to other great apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, the human penis is longer and thicker than expected…
Every breath carries a mix of chemicals shaped by the body’s metabolism. A new study suggests that some of those molecules may come from an unexpected source: the microbes living in the gut. By analyzing exhaled breath from children and mice,…
While dinosaurs stood no chance when a massive asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, microscopic plankton bounced back surprisingly fast. The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event devastated ecosystems, wiping out around 75 percent of…
Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all.
A dull bracelet and a rusted hollow hemisphere decorated with gold are forged, researchers have found, not…
While modern-day kangaroos are well known for their hopping abilities, their giant ancestors likely didn’t hop from place to place because of their large size. However, new research may have just revealed the giant kangaroos’ ancient hopping…
Microorganisms rarely live alone. Instead, they form dense, organized communities known as biofilms, structured assemblies of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes embedded in a shared matrix. These communities coat plant roots, line human tissues,…
