Learn how the newly identified crocodile Crocodylus lucivenator lived alongside Lucy’s species in ancient Ethiopia — and why ...

Learn how bumble bee queens can stay alive underwater for over a week by minimizing their metabolism and saving energy.

Learn how a newly identified mushroom species may reveal the evolutionary origins of Psilocybe cubensis, the world’s most widely cultivated magic mushroom.

Learn how comparing aggression in chimpanzees and bonobos challenges the long-held belief that chimpanzees are the more violent of our closest ape relatives.

Learn how severe respiratory illness leaves the lungs vulnerable to cancer, and how vaccines could prevent these vulnerabilities.

Learn how ALMA observations revealed unusually high levels of methanol in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and what the molecule’s chemistry may reveal about how icy bodies form around other stars.

Learn how ancient DNA and isotope analysis revealed that Amazon parrots were transported alive across the Andes to coastal Peru in a pre-Inca trade network.

Learn how drone footage revealed narrow-ridged finless porpoises interacting with and possibly caring for calves that aren’t their own.

Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years.

Learn more about why hip fractures can be so deadly for elderly patients.

As our ancient human ancestors were evolving and branching out across Eurasia and into the Americas, so too were the ancestors of a common plant virus genus. Using genome sequencing, researchers in an ...

Learn how a deep-sea detector helped trace the most energetic neutrino ever detected to distant blazars.