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.

Learn more about the nectocaridid, an ancient marine creature that looks like a squid but actually belongs to a family of formerly fierce, predatory worms.

Learn more about what life was like for Paleolithic peoples, especially children and adolescences of thousands of years ago.

Dive into the movement of the spindly brittle star, which is more mobile, and more connected, in the deep sea.

Learn about the plane-sized asteroid that will pass by Earth the week of July 28, 2025, and find out how astronauts can track asteroids across space.

Learn more about the nearly two decades worth of research showing how the toxins found in bowhead whale poop are a climate change warning bell.

Got junk? Learn how a new study suggests that, when it comes to our genetic code, that may actually be a good thing.

Learn more about BrainGate2, a medical technology that may help those with ALS to speak in the future.

Meet Mirasaura grauvogeli, a small reptile from the Middle Triassic, whose frill of feather-shaped structures rethinks the evolution of early reptiles.

Catching blood cancer early is key — rapid breath analysis could soon replace slower, more expensive diagnostic tools.