Learn more about the differences between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and how those differences may have helped our ancestors adapt and evolve while Neanderthals went extinct.

We now have an explanation for why we can sometimes perceive taste from smell alone, highlighting how deeply those two senses are wired together.

Learn more about the Chi Cygnid Meteor Shower, a rare shower that seems to grow every five years and will appear this September 2025, peaking between September 13, 2025, and September 15, 2025.

A coral bleaching event in 2024 has severely hurt the Australian underwater ecosystem.

What are Uranus's moons? Learn more about Uranus’s moons and why they aren’t named after Roman characters.

Commercially available magic mushrooms don’t hold up to their labels, endangering consumers and eroding public trust in psychedelic therapies.

Learn more about the biological mechanism behind the tongue movement of chameleons and salamanders, which could contribute to critical technological breakthroughs.

Learn about the discovery of potential biosignatures within sedimentary rocks on Mars, which may represent signs of ancient microbial life. 

Learn more about the tragic fall of the Aztec Empire and how found artifacts are helping to restore pieces of the past.

Learn how fragments from asteroid Ryugu provide evidence of water flowing within asteroids formed in the early Solar System. 

Learn how an ancient lizard ancestor’s unique physical characteristics have shocked paleontologists.

Learn more about the techniques a research team used to record the songs of the elusive beaked whale in Brazil. 

Discover how apex predators like great whites started as slow, bottom-dwelling fish in ancient oceans, and how climate change shaped their rise.

Learn more about the planet that's 40 light-years away and resides within a Goldilocks Zone.  

Learn more about the new island that's resurfaced in an Alaskan lake as glaciers recede. 

Learn more about the processes behind diverting asteroids and how experts must ensure we don't inadvertently knock them back into a collision course. 

Learn what massive mounds of ancient trash tell us about the large food festivals in Late Bronze Age Britain.

Learn why rivers in northern Alaska are turning orange, causing aquatic ecosystems to become increasingly toxic. 

Meet the three new species of deep-sea snailfish and how researchers used modern tech to help identify them. 

Learn more about the new research that suggests that the woylie, a marsupial, may be more than one species.

Explore how the microbiome influences every aspect of our health, including the quality and quantity of our sleep.

Learn why fossil specimens once branded as marine reptiles are now being recognized as coelacanths that lived in shallow seas during the late Triassic.

Learn more about the activity patterns in the brain, which differ for different colors in a surprisingly similar way.

Artificial Intelligence is helping researchers keep an eye on seismic activity at Campi Flegrei. The technology could also be used for other seismic events around the world.