Science

For decades, we’ve believed that Ice Age humans hunted massive animals like the mammoth and saber-toothed cat by throwing spears. However, a new study could turn that notion on its...

Wildfires and their burn scars have made portions of the trail more hazardous and forced hikers to contend with closures on quick notice. For some distance hikers, the blazes are...

Scientists believe that mutations in the brain they previously thought were rare might actually be happening inside each and every one of us. In fact, scientists believe that these brain...

In February, 24-year-old Ian Lafferty decided to take a break from the project he was working on—an AI tool for email—and attend a hackathon in San Francisco. While there,  he...

A group of scientists are looking for clues about the origin of life in a massive chunk of rocks they pulled up from deep below the seafloor. In the pitch-black...

Billions of crabs have been vanishing from the Bering Sea near Alaska since 2022. While it might seem easy to blame the vanishing on overfishing, scientists say this wasn’t actually...

A new type of water-powered bandage could make it much easier for slow-healing wounds to close up. The bandage is technically “electric,” but it is powered by adding water to...

Four private citizens are set to launch on an ambitious, first-of-its-kind space mission next week that is expected to include the first spacewalk conducted entirely by a commercial crew. The...

Northop Grumman on Wednesday announced the successful first flight of its Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated Sensor, or EMRIS, aboard a U.S. military aircraft. The development paves the way for eventual...

FORT JOHNSON, Louisiana—The only sign of the drone was its moped-like whine, the noise rising and falling as it circled above the 101st Airborne Division’s soldiers deep behind enemy lines...