Science

‘One of the oldest gravestones of a free Black person in America’ discovered in Boston

A team of conservationists has discovered and restored the tombstone of Sebastian, a formerly enslaved man who died free in 1729."That discovery is likely one of the oldest gravestones...

The US is hooked on unregulated peptides. But are they effective, or even safe?

Want to speed up your recovery after an injury or a workout? Some influencers are fans of shots...

Ancient-DNA analysis solves 500-year-old mystery of what killed 2 Medici brothers

Two brothers from the wealthy and powerful Medici family died of malaria and were not poisoned as a...

Our brains aren’t wired to handle this much bad news. But ‘looking away is not the fix,’ expert says.

During several recent conversations, people have told me that they've stopped checking their phones in the morning. Not...

Some of the last surviving Neanderthals were remarkably diverse ‪—‬ suggesting inbreeding didn’t doom them

Some of the last surviving Neanderthals displayed greater genetic diversity than scientists previously thought, a new study of...

IBD is caused by a broken ‘inflammation brake’ in some patients

The causes of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are poorly understood, but now, scientists have pinpointed a runaway immune response that may underlie the condition...

Mighty Water Wheels of Colonial America

By Gracus Bloom, City-Paper.com Long before electric motors, diesel engines, and industrial machinery transformed America, water wheels provided the horsepower that powered colonial communities. These...

Watch bison herd defend a newborn calf from wolf attack in a primeval Polish forest

A camera trap in an ancient Polish forest has captured extremely rare and unexpected footage of wolves attacking a bison herd made up of...

5,000-year-old burial of man with battered skull found in kiln in Germany — and he may have been a human sacrifice

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed an unusual burial of an injured man who was thrown into an abandoned kiln nearly 5,000 years ago. Because...

NASA’s experimental X-59 jet breaks sound barrier for 1st time in step toward ‘quiet supersonic’ technology

NASA's X-59, an experimental supersonic aircraft developed in partnership with Lockheed Martin, has broken the sound barrier for the first time. The test represents...

‘Just defies belief’: 5 million-year-old whale graveyard stretches for 750 miles in the Indian Ocean

Scientists have discovered a vast whale graveyard stretching for hundreds of miles in the Indian Ocean, with some fossil bones dating back over 5...