Life
In the spring of 2022, a Cornell lab technician who'd been parking for free near an Ithaca cemetery and cutting through it on her walk to…
Aug 19, 2026
Life Science and Evolution
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Life
A juvenile bar-tailed godwit flew 13,560 kilometres from Alaska to Tasmania in October 2022 without landing once
Aug 16, 2026
Life
Early Neanderthals were probably striking sparks to make fire in England 400,000 years ago
Aug 16, 2026
Life
Scientists documented 1,121 previously unknown marine species in a single year
Aug 15, 2026
Life
Scientists in July 2026 confirmed a new monkey species in the Congo rainforest
Aug 15, 2026
Life
A Norwegian cave yielded 75,000-year-old polar bear, walrus and bowhead-whale bones, plus the first collared-lemming remains reported from…
Aug 15, 2026
Life Science and Evolution
During a deep-water ocean expedition off Australia, marine biologists identified over 110 new marine species
Aug 14, 2026
Life
More than 80% of Tibetans carry a high-altitude adaptation inherited from Denisovans—an extinct human lineage first identified from DNA in…
Aug 14, 2026
Life
The human genome carries surprisingly little genetic diversity for a species of eight billion
Aug 12, 2026
Life
In 1933, a laborer building a bridge in northern China dug up a huge fossilized human skull and hid it in a well, telling no one for 85…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Environment
In 2011 the Netherlands dumped twenty one and a half million cubic meters of sand into the sea in one enormous pile, and let wind and tide…
Jul 21, 2026
Life
In 1856, workers quarrying limestone in Germany's Neander Valley pulled 16 bone fragments from a cave they were about to blow up, tossed…
Jul 20, 2026
Biomedical Sciences
A device called the Eye in a Care Box kept dead eyes responding to light for ten hours, but hasn't been tested in humans yet
Jul 17, 2026
Life
Scientists hid speakers along a third of a mile of hiking trail in Boulder, Colorado, to fake a richer birdsong chorus, and hikers who…
Jul 17, 2026