People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their ...

OpenAI faces scrutiny after suicides linked to ChatGPT; advocates warn bots shouldn’t mimic therapists without safeguards.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Turkey, uncovering a lost land bridge that could significantly alter our understanding of human migration and European history. This remarkable ...

A massive comet explosion that rocked Louisiana nearly 13,000 years ago has provided new evidence supporting one of archaeology's most controversial theories. The discovery of a 984-foot-long ...

In a remarkable discovery that bridges ornithology and archaeology, scientists have unearthed a treasure trove of centuries-old human artifacts preserved within abandoned bearded vulture nests in ...

Renaud Joannes-Boyau receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Manish Arora receives funding from US National Institutes of Health. He is the founder of Linus Biotechnology, a start-up ...

Kada Scott, who was last seen on Oct. 4, remains missing, according to police. A suspect has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a 23-year-old nursing assistant in Philadelphia who ...

Just over 500 years ago, on 3 August 1492, Christopher Columbus, the admiral from Genoa underwritten by Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain, set off on the first of 4 trips across the Atlantic. He ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...