Learn how orcas in the Gulf of California use coordinated body slams to break sunfish into thousands of pieces, possibly to feed juveniles or play.
Learn how prions can turn the body’s own proteins into a threat, and how studying this group of diseases could help us better understand dementia.
Learn how discoveries at an Iron Age settlement near Tours, France, connect ceremonial acts with moments of change, abandonment, and daily Gaulish life.
Learn how personalized genetic therapy helped researchers treat two children with a rare form of epilepsy, enabling one to walk independently for the first time.
Learn how capsules containing donor stool microbes improved sleep efficiency and reduced nighttime wakefulness in adults with chronic insomnia.
Discover more about NASA's Psyche mission and how it recently tested its instruments on the Red Planet.
Learn more about the Arctic bobtail squid and why this new sighting is so important to understanding its ecology.
Learn how microscopic plant remains in Cloggs Cave connect 25,000 years of grass burning with GunaiKurnai magic and ritual traditions.
Learn how Legionella bacteria invade the lungs and cause pneumonia, respiratory failure, and other life-threatening complications.
Learn how a research team created a mineral sunscreen without a white cast, a change especially important for skin cancer prevention for those with darker skin tones.
Learn how archaeological work for England’s East West Rail uncovered Roman coins, Iron Age pottery, and evidence of ancient communities.
Learn more about the Streisand effect, describing how efforts to censor public information may draw even more attention to an issue.
Learn about a fossil shedding light on violence and funerary practices during the Middle Paleolithic.
Learn more about the differences in brain structure for those born blind and how a new study is changing our understanding of these developments.
Learn about a new method to predict future solar activity by observing the Sun when its weather "switches off."
Learn how much caffeine is considered safe for your heart, why energy drinks may not be a great alternative, and why studying coffee's health impacts isn't so straightforward.
Learn how inscriptions inside three rock-cut tombs preserve the families, careers, and foreign connections of ancient Egyptian officials.
Learn how part of a nearly 800-year-old medieval castle thought to have been destroyed was found beneath Chester Crown Court.
Learn what recently discovered fossils can tell us about this formidable dinosaur’s hunting style and why they were "unsafe at any size."
Learn how warmer air and decades of fuel buildup are turning California’s wildfires into increasingly destructive events.