In 1884, Edwin Abbott wrote the novel Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions as a satire of Victorian hierarchy. He imagined a world that...
Scientists at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah have figured out how to use lasers to create sci-fi-style holograms. The holograms closely resemble and are...
A cave in Kenya has now been identified as the oldest intentional human burial site in Africa, with luminescence dating showing that the burial...
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched....
Few sites in the world preserve a continuous archaeological record spanning millions of years. Wonderwerk Cave, located in South Africa's Kalahari Desert, is one...
The latest assessment of Atlantic cod stocks, whose collapse crushed the economy of Newfoundland and Labrador, has scientists worried the species will never recover...
Since fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first discovered over a decade ago, scientists have puzzled over what could be generating these intense flashes of...
The cause of death was not immediately known, but Grahame had publicly struggled for years with an eating disorder. Nikki Grahame, a star of "Big...
Gray wolves are among the largest predators to have survived the extinction at the end of the last ice age around 11,700 years ago....
Alzheimer’s disease is known for its slow attack on neurons crucial to memory and cognition. But why are these particular neurons in aging...