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Photo: ullstein bild / Getty Images More Than 2,000 Volunteers Are Excavating a 240-Million-Year-Old Monster
It’s an extraordinary effort for an extraordinary fossil.
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Photo: Maroni, P.J., Cornet, J., Skorikova, Y. et al. / Polar Biology Scientists Just Filmed a Rare Arctic Squid for the First Time, and It Was Guarding Babies
Luckily the tiny squid didn’t seem too bothered by the intrusion.
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Photo: PeopleImages / Getty Images Modern Medicine Is Keeping Us Alive Longer, But That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing
Living longer is great, but we aren’t always living well.
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Photo: Pete_Flyer / Getty Images This 294-Million-Year-Old Fossil Preserved Something Scientists Almost Never Find
We’re still discovering new things about the butts of creatures that died hundreds of millions of years ago.
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Photo: Archivo Administrativo, Museo Regional de Iquique–CORMUDESI / Science Advances Archaeologists Were Wrong About How These Famous Inca Child Mummies Died
No matter how bad it gets, at least we’re not Inca child sacrifices.
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Photo: Mike Korostelev / Getty Images Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why Orcas Are Punching Giant Sunfish So Hard They Explode
Orcas have always been scarier than sharks.
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Photo: Lan Zhang / Getty Images People With Aphantasia Can’t Visualize Anything. So How Do They Dream?
Among the visual aphantasics in the study, 46% said they always dream in pictures.
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Archaeologists May Have Identified the Earliest Known Scientist in the Americas
A wall at the Maya city of Xultun appears to preserve the name of Sak Tahn Waax alongside astronomical and calendar calculations.
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Earth’s Orbit Is Full of Hidden Space Junk, and Some of It Could Threaten Modern Life
Researchers found previously undetected debris near geosynchronous orbit, where critical communications and weather satellites operate.
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The Shroud of Turin Is Covered in Food and Animal DNA, New Study Finds
Researchers found human, animal, and plant DNA on the famous relic, but the results do not prove where it came from or who it covered.
