Learn how a study of fossilized teeth has changed what we thought we knew about megalodon’s diet.

Learn more about one of the oldest possible art pieces with a fingerprint from Europe, which may represent a human face.

Learn how Vikings traveled the seas by way of trade routes — and how one researcher found out where they stopped to rest on ...

Learn how archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to debunk one of the most defining moments in British history.

What are the Van Allen belts? Learn how these giant rings of charged particles cause problems for astronauts and satellites.

What was the 1859 Carrington Event? As a massive solar flare, this event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused ...

Learn why more people are choosing dogs over having children and what this says about modern families.

Learn how dishwashers release microplastics and nanoplastics that pose environmental risks through polluted wastewater.

Learn about the recently discovered trans-Neptunian object that may eventually join Pluto as a dwarf planet, found at the ...

Sloth size and habitat shifted multiple times over the past 35 million years, but human hunting likely drove the slower, ...

Learn more about why we trust people from a low socioeconomic background over those who grew up with privilege.

Although there is no exact comparison to any known bacterium on Earth, the space bacteria shares some key genetic ...