Hibernating animals reverse aging, avoid diabetes, and preserve muscle. Could we one day do the same?

Learn how the hominins’ consumption of grasses led to changes in their teeth around 700,000 years later.

What are some of the most oddly-shaped galaxies? Learn more about some of the Universe's unusual formations.

What is space-time? Depending on how fast you're moving or how close you are do Earth's gravity can change the way time feels.

Knowing the current health status of your heart is crucial — and dating your heart’s age might just be the right tool for it.

Learn how hundreds of “sinkites,” all around a kilometer across, are altering the strata in the North Sea.

Learn about cryovolcanism, which shapes the surface of icy moons in the outer Solar System by releasing water that simultaneously boils and freezes.

Learn more about the new language researchers uncovered at the Boğazköy-Hattusha site, indicating the city’s residents loved learning and writing in foreign languages.

What is the gut microbiome? Learn more about why it's crucial for our health and wellness.

Learn why our ancient ancestors maintained their climbing abilities once they developed their walking ones, and discover how their bipedalism evolved (possibly in the trees).

Learn how cosmic rays, normally seen as a threat to humans in space, may be sustaining life beneath the surface of Mars and elsewhere in the Solar System.

Learn about how a dental floss pick could be the new and more effective vaccine delivery method.

Listen to an exclusive podcast episode where Discover Magazine interviews Dr. Katy Croff Bell and Professor Alan Jamieson about the deep sea.

Learn about the Tintina fault, which has been stirring for thousands of years and may hit the Yukon Territory with a major earthquake in the future.

Learn more about the prebiotic molecules who's origins come from deep space.

A faint glow shines through our skulls and may hold clues about what’s happening inside our minds.

Learn more about where to see the Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids meteor showers, both expected to peak at the end of July 2025.

Bathylepeta wadatsumi was inspired by an anime character and was discovered with the DSV Shinkai 6500, a crewed submersible, to observe specimens in their natural habitat.

The stellar companion may help explain why the brightness of Betelgeuse, the red supergiant, is open to so much variation.

Discover how researchers tell which foods dinosaurs preferred just by analyzing their fossilized tooth enamel.

Tiny particles from yogurt open new possibilities for advanced tissue regeneration.

Learn more about how to make sense of Asia’s confusing hominin fossil record of Homo juluensis, and why scientists proposed a new species.

Learn how sweat emerges from the skin, a process that has important implications for human health, textiles, and technology.

Learn about the migration routes that ancient humans took when traveling out of Africa and how rising sea levels may have sunk an Egyptian city.