Discover how tickling apes and recording their bursts of laughter revealed a similar pattern to how humans laugh, while hinting at the origins of speech.
Learn how a road project near Aarhus uncovered a 1.08-million-square-foot Viking Age textile site with 82 pit houses, flax processing areas, and links to trade.
Learn more about the health benefits dogs can provide, both physically and mentally, and how this could have an impact on how long we live.
Learn more about super-puff planets and how researchers determined the densities of these far-off planets.
Learn how dogs and humans form remarkably similar bonds across cultures, despite differences in how they live and work together.
Learn how proteins in Homo naledi teeth could point to an all-female burial site and raise new questions about how ancient human relatives treated their dead.
Learn how switching a cold one for a hot tea can induce sweat production and help cool you down, but not when it’s humid out.
Learn how Webb’s infrared view of Orion revealed buried protostars, violent jets, and disks of gas and dust that could eventually form planets.
Learn more about the Gaia Sausage, a trail of stars from a dwarf galaxy the Milky Way absorbed billions of years ago.
Learn how ancient DNA preserved on and near cave art in Spain and Portugal could open new ways to study prehistoric people.
Learn more about what the DNA of late Neanderthals reveals about their extinction theories.
Learn more about how younger generations are now aging faster than their parents and grandparents, and how this aging gap could explain the rise in early-onset cancers.
Learn more about menarche, a mark on an ancient femur bone, and how it can help us understand the reproductive beginnings of ancient women.
Learn how illegal digging near Rome exposed an Imperial-era Roman villa with mosaic floors, painted walls, and a marble statue.
Learn more about the origins of language, and how our ancient ancestors may have developed it in a sudden jump rather than over time.
Learn about genicular artery embolization, a new minimally invasive procedure that is giving patients with knee osteoarthritis years of pain relief without surgery.
Learn more about a recent hydrothermal explosion in Yellowstone National Park and why it's important to keep monitoring the Biscuit Basin area.
Learn how heavy rain at South Dakota’s SURF sent mine ventilation airflow backward and revealed a hidden underground safety risk.
Learn how the newly discovered ballista spider builds a durable snare specialized in trapping a single ant species.
Learn how the Roman Space Telescope will complete final checks in Florida before launching toward its deep-space observing post.