Science

Impatient for your next smartphone upgrade? Just be glad you weren’t born hundreds of thousands of years ago, when the key technology for survival—stone hand axes—stayed almost exactly the same for 700,000 years. Researchers have long debated the reasons behind this long period of stasis. Now, a study of unusually […]

He probably doesn’t look so pretty anymore.

Some 550 years ago the last of the great city-states of the Maya civilization that had flourished in the Americas for centuries met their demise. As drought and warfare tore apart the social and political fabric and the Spanish conquistadors began claiming Maya land for plantations and subjugating Maya people […]

A new understanding of how birds’ wings change in turbulent flying conditions has implications for the future of aircraft, say researchers.

Planners returned water to Arizona’s Santa Cruz River’s dry bed in 2019, and various species began showing up the same day.

Praveen Rahi spent the better part of the past 3 years identifying and describing a new species of a nitrogen-fixing bacteria he discovered on peas cultivated in the mountains of northern India. But it could take years for Rahi, a microbial ecologist at India’s National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), […]

Hospitalized COVID-19 patients were also at higher risk for 17 serious health complications, compared with flu patients.

The results are in: they’re very good boys and girls.

A secret set of salivary glands has been hiding behind the nose.