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The Human Relative Who Owned This 3.4-Million-Year-Old Foot May Have Belonged to a Species That Lived Alongside Lucy

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Archaeologists Digging Beneath Britain's Houses of Parliament Discover 6,000-Year-Old Flint Artifacts and a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Altar Fragment

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Monk Parakeets Are Highly Social Birds, but They Slowly ‘Test the Waters’ When Making New Friends

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'Rage Bait,' Which Describes Online Content Created to Make Us Mad, Is Oxford's 2025 Word of the Year

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With His Sculptures Full of Natural Splendor, Artist Truman Lowe Could Make Wood Look Like Water

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When Did Domestic Cats Take Over the World? New Research Suggests They Arrived in Europe and China Centuries Later Than We Thought

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For Some Male Pheasants, Love Really Is Blind. Their Elaborate Feathers That Impress Females Also Obstruct Their Vision

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The Ten Best Science Books of 2025

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Go Behind the Scenes at an Iconic Irish Library as Staff Move 700,000 Historical Treasures Into Storage

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Touring Charleston’s Historic Past

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Scientists Say These Small Electrical Discharges May Be the First Direct Evidence of Lightning on Mars

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Experts Say This Small Drawing of a Foot May Be a Long-Lost Study for Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling

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Sting's Musical 'The Last Ship' Docks at the Metropolitan Opera House More Than a Decade After Its Broadway Debut

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Ancient DNA Reveals That a Teenage Girl Chewed on This Wad of 'Gum' 10,500 Years Ago

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Pigeons Rely on the Earth’s Magnetic Field to Navigate. Now, Researchers May Have Uncovered How They Do It

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A DNA Analysis of Almost 3,000 Canines Suggests That Most Dogs Have a Little Wolf in Them

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Your Brain Goes Through Five Distinct Epochs of Neural Wiring During Your Lifetime, New Research Suggests

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New Trials Hint That 'Functional Cure' for HIV May Be Within Reach, Helping Some Patients Achieve Lasting Remission

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Archaeologists in Wisconsin Unearth an Ancient 'Parking Lot' With 16 Dugout Canoes—Including One That's 5,200 Years Old

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Mysterious Viking Age Woman Found Buried With Scallop Shells Covering Her Mouth

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