Learn about the collection of ritualistic items unearthed at the largest and oldest known Maya monument, Aguada Fénix. 

Learn how super recognizers don’t memorize extra details but instinctively focus on the most telling facial features, a skill now helping train better recognition software.

Learn more about the “Marree Man,” a gigantic geoglyph carved into the Australian outback whose creator still remains a mystery.

Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history.

Learn how nanobodies from camels and llamas could unlock safer, more precise treatments for Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia.

The world’s smallest neural implant is powered and connected entirely by light, opening new possibilities for long-term brain monitoring.

Learn more about the recent Listeria outbreak and how to keep your kitchen safe from this resilient bacterium.

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of the longest-lasting technologies in human history.

A 14th-century teenager died from the Black Death in Edinburgh. Learn how researchers discovered the pathogen in his teeth, and how this may be the first scientific evidence of the plague in the city.

Learn how chemists were studying a known antibiotic when they discovered a molecule 100 times more potent at defeating drug-resistant superbugs.

Learn about the closest black hole from Earth, Gaia BH1. This recently discovered black hole is dormant, but it’s only 1,600 light-years away.

Learn how tardigrades are able to tolerate extreme radiation with a unique protein that unwinds their DNA.

Learn more about the connection between nighttime light exposure and heart disease, and how you can help protect yourself.

Learn more about Maya daykeepers and how they created lunar calendar tables to predict celestial events.

Learn more about bowhead whales and how they routinely see out their 200th birthday — and this DNA-repair protein might just be how.

Learn more about the ways viral infections can impact people with and without chronic diseases.

Learn how scientists uncovered a surprising link between long-term melatonin use and heart failure in chronic insomnia patients.

Learn more about protein intake and how, even though we need protein in our diets, too much can snuff out other nutrients.

Learn about two black hole mergers in 2024 that experts revisited with new information from gravitational waves, confirming theories made by Albert Einstein.

Learn more about the prediction that larger space objects are coming our way during the 2032 and 2036 Taurid meteor showers.

Learn about the crayon-like tools made by Neanderthals during the Middle Paleolithic and how these objects likely prove the existence of a complex Neanderthal culture.

Learn how the legendary “Dueling Dinosaurs” fossil revealed that a supposed teenage Tyrannosaurus rex was actually a full-grown Nanotyrannus — changing what we know about tyrant evolution.

Periods of peace and wealth allowed people to invest more in the afterlife, leaving behind a lasting record of cultural and environmental history.

Learn more about the blue dogs in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and what is behind the mystery of their blue fur.