At the heart of the world’s largest cave, two fossil sharks dating back 325 million years have just been uncovered. These prehistoric marine predators, discovered in Mammoth Cave and in Alabama, ...

The Isle of Man sits in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland, a self-governing dependency with broad control over its own laws. That autonomy, built on more than a century of motorsport ...

The history of peoples across the millennia can be read in our DNA. In Europe, it tells a story of intense mixing between groups, shaped by waves of migration and movement. In South Africa, however, a ...

For six years, a 570 megapixel camera mounted on a telescope in the Chilean Andes photographed the sky. Over 758 nights, it recorded light from 669 million galaxies, billions of light years away. The ...

The parents who stay close to their adult children are not the ones who never argued or always said the right thing. According to family therapists and developmental psychologists, they share five ...

For many older adults, preserving brain function is a growing concern. A recent study led by researchers at King’s College London suggests that a daily supplement made from plant fiber could help ...

Most people treat a forgotten name or missed appointment as a sign something is wrong. According to a landmark study in Neuron, the brain forgets on purpose, and the mechanism behind it is one of the ...

289 dives. Two and a half years. What they pulled out of the Øresund Strait between Denmark and Sweden, announced last December, turned out to be the largest medieval cargo vessel ever discovered. The ...

For decades, hazard models relied on seafloor data from the 1980s. In 2021, Suzanne Carbotte, marine geophysicist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, led a 41-day expedition ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder exposed human brain cells to the amount of erythritol found in a single sugar-free beverage, and what happened in those three hours, published in the ...

Bert Cregg, professor at Michigan State University, has heard the noise firsthand. “It sounds like gunshots,” he said, “and if people are in the woods and happen to hear one of these or outside in ...

Turning CO2 into energy might sound like science fiction – or at least like a bold climate promise. Yet that is exactly what China has achieved by inaugurating two fully operational power generators ...