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Slim3D/Getty Images Researchers Think They Figured Out Why Neanderthals Went Extinct, and It’s the Wildest Theory Yet
New modeling suggests the real survival advantage wasn’t intelligence, but staying connected when things got rough.
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Henrik Sorensen/Getty Images Scorpions Are Basically Tiny X-Men, Scientists Say
New research found zinc, iron, and manganese reinforcing scorpion stingers and claws like tiny biological weapons.
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SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES Scientists Made the First-Ever ‘Smell Map,’ and It’s Oddly Beautiful
Two new studies suggest the brain processes odors through a structured system, not the random sensory spaghetti researchers once assumed.
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Why Texas A&M Built the World’s Largest Science Lab for Blowing Stuff Up Real Good
Researchers will use controlled detonations to study industrial disasters, supernova physics, and hypersonic flight.
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Mike Kemp/Contributor/Getty Images Scientists Figured Out How Smart Neanderthals Were (We Were All Wrong)
A new study suggests the supposed cognitive gap between Neanderthals and modern humans may have been wildly overstated.
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Andrea Pucci/Getty Images Archaeologists Reconstruct the Face of a Man Killed in Mount Vesuvius Eruption
Researchers used skeletal remains and AI to imagine what one victim of Mount Vesuvius may have looked like.
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FHM/Getty Images ‘Haunted’ Houses Give Off Literal Bad Vibes, Scientists Say
What people are interpreting as the work of ghosts is really just the subtle hum of aging toilet pipes.
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Anadolu/Contributor/Getty Images Archaeologists Discovered a Lost Underwater Graveyard in a Tiny Stretch of Sea
The collection of shipwrecks includes Roman cargo ships, stealthy Spanish gunboats, WWII relics, and one very important box of combs.
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Lyubov Shmakova A ‘Zombie Worm’ Came Back to Life After 24,000 Years and Started Multiplying
A creature born during the Ice Age just had babies in a Russian laboratory. That’s pretty wild.
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