Science

Earth’s seasonal cycles can vary dramatically across short distances, even at the same latitudes, a new study suggests.Researchers have compiled…

Around 18,000 years ago, ice age people in what is now Ukraine likely weathered the extremely harsh climate by building…

A new brain-machine interface (BMI) uses light to “speak” to the brain, mouse experiments show.The minimally invasive wireless device, which…

A few months from now, a NASA spacecraft called the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will begin its 20th year of…

Over 10,000 years of domestication, cats have learned to meow to get exactly what they want from their human servants.…

About 1,500 years ago, early Christian monks and adherents of the Persian religion Zoroastrianism lived together without conflict in northern…

Scientists have found a new way to manipulate graphene to create a substance with record-breaking energy and power density.When incorporated…

QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Atacama Desert, ChileWhat’s in the photo? A rare dusting of snow covers parts of one of…

Milestone: “Taung Child” skull revealedDate: Dec. 23, 1924Where: Taung, South AfricaWho: Raymond Dart’s anthropological teamAt the end of 1924, an…

While surveying a Swiss bog, two volunteer archaeologists discovered what may be two of the oldest Celtic coins ever found…