Science

This ancient stick may be the world’s oldest handheld w...

These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a gl...

Some vaccines are making progress in protecting vulnera...

Vaccines can be a crucial conservation tool. But getting shots to wildlife, and ...

The inner lives of animals

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses how scientists are beginning to study anim...

How Greenland sharks defy aging

When it comes to bucking the biological ails of aging, humans could learn someth...

It masquerades as malignant. But this bone-covered tumo...

Scientists have described a novel, yet benign bone-covered growth's characterist...

Physics theories about the multiverse are stranger than...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhab...

Seismometers can track falling space junk

As the threat of falling spacecraft increases, using earthquake sensors to detec...

A spot in the base of the brain has a love of language

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expandi...

Animals experience joy. Scientists want to measure it

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in ...

A massive cosmic ring may challenge a key assumption ab...

At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological prin...

This hand stencil in Indonesia is now the oldest known ...

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as th...

Physicists discovered neutrinos 70 years ago. The ghost...

Neutrinos have kept scientists on their toes in the decades since they were disc...

There’s life beneath the snow, but it’s at risk of melt...

An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. ...

This detached hand robot has a thing for skittering on ...

The robot can bend, grasp and carry in ways humans can’t, which could help it na...

‘In Botanical Time’ explores the ways Earth’s oldest pl...

Author Christopher Woods unpacks the science behind ancient plants’ longevity in...

This tool-using cow defies expectations for bovine brai...

Veronika the cow uses a brush as a tool to scratch herself, revealing rare probl...