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Mount Vesuvius turned this ancient brain into glass. Here’s how

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 is perhaps most famous for entombing the Roman...

Married men are doing more cleaning and laundry than in the past

Historically, married women in the United States have done the lion’s share of their households’ laundry, cooking...

DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica

Few agencies have been spared as Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ripped through...

A Deadly Unidentified Disease Has Emerged in the DRC

A mysterious disease with Ebola-like symptoms has emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to...

More brainlike computers could change AI for the better

The tiny worm Caenorhabditis elegans has a brain just about the width of a human hair. Yet...

Humans moved into African rainforests at least 150,000 years ago

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago....

Can probiotics actually curb sugar cravings?

Sugar is a siren song to many people. But some friendly gut bacteria might help you resist...

Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud,...

A new book chronicles the science of life in the air 

Air-BorneCarl ZimmerDutton, $32 On March 10, 2020, 61 choir members rehearsed in a church...

Costa Rica Is Saving Forest Ecosystems by Listening to Them

Monica Retamosa was in the middle of changing the batteries of a tape recorder when she heard...

Ancient Mars wasn’t just wet. It was cold and wet

Frigid water helped paint Mars red and may have shaped a vast coastline, two new studies into...

A skull found in Egypt shows this top predator stalked ancient Africa

In the fossil-rich sands of the Faiyum Oasis in Egypt, archaeologists have uncovered one of the most...
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