Mummified llamas stashed at a more than 500-year-old site on Peru’s southern coast offer the first direct glimpse of Inca…
Past observations have suggested that there’s water on the moon. New telescope observations conclude that those findings hold water. Spacecraft…
Malaria parasites survive tough times by not being too clingy. During Africa’s dry season, when mosquitoes are scarce, malaria parasites…
On a day during the late Ice Age, a young adult or teen carrying a toddler hustled across a muddy…
An initial crop of clinical trials testing an anti-inflammatory drug against COVID-19 do not look promising. The best available evidence…
There’s nothing Winifred Frick likes better than crawling through guano-filled caves and coming face-to-face with bats. As chief scientist of…
The diabolical ironclad beetle is like a tiny tank on six legs. This insect’s rugged exoskeleton is so tough that…
Only two dinosaur species are known to have had wings made out of stretched skin, like bats. But unlike bats,…
A type of bone tool generally thought to have been invented by Stone Age humans got its start among hominids…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is a cosmic rock collector. Cheers erupted from mission control at 6:12 p.m. EDT on October 20…
