Science

‘It’s similar to how Google can map your home without your consent’: Why using aerial lasers to map an archaeology site should have Indigenous...

Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square...

Halley wasn’t the first to figure out the famous comet. An 11th-century monk did it first, new research suggests.

Halley's comet bears the name of the astronomer who famously first described its movements through space, but he...

1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb discovered in Mexico features enormous owl sculpture symbolizing death

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a 1,400-year-old tomb from the Zapotec culture that features well-preserved details, including a...

People, not glaciers, transported rocks to Stonehenge, study confirms

Humans — not glaciers — transported Stonehenge's megaliths across Great Britain to their current location in southern England,...

Why gut pain may be more severe in women than in men, according to a preclinical study

Differences in how gut cells respond to hormones may help to explain why women experience more frequent and...

Rare wampum beads discovered at 17th-century colony in Newfoundland

Seven tiny beads unearthed in Newfoundland, Canada, are a rare discovery — they may be the only wampum ever found in the province, and...

Physicists find a loophole in Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle without breaking it

Physicists have measured both the momentum and position of a particle without breaking Heisenberg’s iconic uncertainty principle.In quantum mechanics, particles don’t have fixed properties...

Jane Goodall, famed primatologist who discovered chimpanzee tool use, dies at 91

Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) confirmed in a statement...

'Health impacts are being felt in real time': How the CDC is being decimated by the Trump administration

The CDC's current crisis has been building since Trump's first week in office and boiled over after Kennedy fired the agency's newly appointed director. Published...

‘Closest view’ yet of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captured by ESA Mars orbiter

Two spacecraft on Mars have captured new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in the closest view that the European Space Agency (ESA) will...

China issues new pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions — is it now a global leader in climate action?

In a video statement to the United Nations (UN) in September, China's President Xi Jinping announced the country's first-ever plan defining set targets to...