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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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Image by Ramesh Thadani/Getty Images Animals in the Amazon Use ‘the Internet’ to Communicate. Here’s How It Works.
Birds and monkeys in the Peruvian Amazon pass predator warnings from species to species like a rainforest panic chain.
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Slavica/Getty Images Parrots Can Learn Your Name (and Then Use It Against You)
The birds weren’t just repeating words. Some appeared to use names correctly for humans, pets, and each other.
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Nopparit/Getty Images Scientists Found a Violent New Way to Kill Viruses (No Sanitizer Needed)
It sounds crazy. But does it work?
