Starting in 2025, this year’s flu season is spreading early, and with vaccination rates low and a novel virus strain, health experts are warning that it could be a rough one.

Learn how stress inside a volcano can make gas bubbles form early, helping explain why some eruptions stay quiet instead of exploding.

Learn how Bigfoot hunters are turning to high-tech science to prove their case, and what their quest can tell us about citizen scientists creating knowledge.

Learn how experience teaches the brain to distinguish between the words in languages over time.

Learn more about the diseases Neanderthals endured and how their weakened immune system and encounters with humans made them more susceptible to infection.

Learn how scientists uncovered a second, overlooked lion roar — and why the finding could reshape efforts to track and protect the species.

Learn about a fossil site in Transylvania that contains hundreds of vertebrate remains and was once an island full of dwarf dinosaurs.

Learn how uncovering the biochemistry of a long-established blood pressure drug could make it eligible to treat brain tumors.

Learn how two new studies reveal surprising parallels between dogs’ ADHD-like behaviors and human attention patterns, and how sleep and training can help distractible dogs learn more effectively.

Learn how scientists have used ultrasound technology to turn one of chocolate’s biggest waste products into a nutritionally-packed additive for honey.

Check out some of the new images NASA missions have captured of comet 3I/ATLAS as it makes its way across the Solar System.

Learn how faults beneath the Earth's surface can heal themselves after slowly releasing stress from the movement of tectonic plates.

Swapping colonoscopies for swallowing a pill packed with bacteria that can read the condition of our gut could revolutionize gastroenterology and seriously relieve patients.

Learn how rats, originally brought over to Easter Island as a food source, are partially to blame for the destruction of palm forests on Rapa Nui.

Learn how new genomic tools revealed that cabernet sauvignon preserves inherited chemical signatures dating back 400 years.

A grand Bronze Age settlement in today’s Kazakhstan tells one of humanity’s most important stories — the shift from a nomadic to a settled lifestyle.

Learn how scientists traced kissing back 21 million years using primate behavior, evolutionary modeling, and clues from Neanderthals.

Learn how a common interpretation of Neanderthal noses could be changed due to a skeleton trapped inside a sinkhole. 

Learn how researchers traced chemical evidence of early life in ancient rocks and found signs of photosynthesis nearly a billion years earlier than expected.

Scientists have collected ancient RNA from mammoth samples up to 52,000 years old. Learn how they can use that RNA to indicate what happened to the mammoth as it took its last breaths.

Learn more about how scientists uncovered an unlikely community of arachnids in Europe’s Sulfur Cave and why these spiders usually don’t live together.

Learn how archaeologists discovered a woman-and-goose carving that predates the Neolithic and offers new clues to ancient symbolism.

Learn about a new mathematical model that suggests Neanderthals never went extinct and, instead, became modern humans.

Learn more about the prehistoric crocodile species that may have hunted prey like modern-day leopards, from the trees rather than the water.