Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock…
Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize.
Researchers in the UK have suggested in a recently published study that there’s a…
Astronomers have found a massive cloud of metallic winds orbiting a mystery object in…
One branch of the human family tree had never shown up in one of its most studied landscapes. Despite abundant hominin fossils in Ethiopia’s Afar region, Paranthropus was missing. A newly discovered fossil fills that gap.
Reported in Nature, the…
Our ancient ancestors crafted ingenious tools made not just from stone, but from animal bones too. One such tool, a nearly 500,000-year-old primitive hammer formed out of elephant bone, was recently uncovered in southern England.
A new study…
Children of older fathers are at increased risk of health complications, including higher rates of stillbirth and obesity. Most research aimed at understanding this link focuses on the DNA in sperm and how it changes in older males.
But sperm…
Dogs can detect cancer by smell, according to a new study in which trained dogs identified hemangiosarcoma, an aggressive blood-vessel cancer, in blood samples. Cancer is a leading cause of death in both humans and pets, and hemangiosarcoma is…
NASA’s Space Launch System — the rocket that will carry four astronauts to the moon for the first time in over fifty years — along with the Orion spacecraft, has been moved to its launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission, named…
Climate change in recent years has fueled migration worldwide. Floods in Pakistan have forced millions from their homes, while the island nation of Kiribati’s entire existence is in doubt due to rising sea levels, according to NASA. A new study…
Authorities in eastern India are racing to locate a single-tusked Asian elephant blamed for a string of fatal nighttime attacks that have left at least 22 people dead since the start of 2026. The first reported death occurred on January 1, 2026,…