3+ hour, 6+ min ago  (810+ words) The story of human survival often focuses on Earth's climate. Ice ages, rainfall changes, and shifting landscapes shaped where people lived and moved. But this is only part of the story. A much smaller force may have played an equally…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (771+ words) A new study has found that most deadly landslides occur in areas where humans have altered or transformed the surrounding land. That finding recasts many mountain disasters as the avoidable outcome of human activity, with the highest costs falling in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (778+ words) Seven frog-like insects from Uganda's rainforest have now been recognized as species new to science. The finding ends a decades-long silence in African records for this group, and one new name carries a tribute into the scientific record. In trays…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (883+ words) Life in the ocean looked very different more than 600 million years ago. No fish swam in the water and no large animals moved across the seafloor. Some of the earliest animals were sponges, and new research shows that those first…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (822+ words) Scientists have found traces of a tough material that once formed the outer shells of ancient sea creatures called trilobites, preserved inside fossils that are more than 500 million years old. The discovery shows that parts of living organisms can last…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (833+ words) Have you ever wondered what happens to a forest long after people stop cutting down trees? Does nature always heal on its own, or can something stand in the way? In the rainforests of Madagascar, scientists have been asking this…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (916+ words) An adult cremation in Africa has emerged as the earliest known case of its kind, preserving an intact pyre built nearly 9, 500 years ago. It reshapes what is known about how early foraging communities treated death and organized collective labor around…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (721+ words) Monte Le'n National Park on Argentina's Patagonian coast has landed in a classic conservation'bind: what do you do when the comeback of a native predator threatens a prey species that only moved in because predators were missing? After cattle ranching…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (795+ words) Antarctica often feels timeless and unchanging, but close observation tells a different story. Penguins, among the continent's most closely studied animals, are now breeding much earlier than they once did. Such rapid change signals intense pressure from climate warming and raises…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago  (815+ words) Far below where sunlight can reach, subtle marks in Moroccan stone suggest that life left a record in a place long assumed to be erased by time." The finding matters because it challenges where scientists think fragile traces of early…...