For decades, the disappearance of Neanderthals has been explained through dramatic stories of sudden extinction. Some theories suggested they were hunted, others that they starved when climates ...

You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible. As we continue to ...

Usually, when someone reaches the milestone of turning 100, it makes local headlines and might even go viral on social media — but what if that became the norm? Reaching 100 years of age could become ...

Look in the mirror and the feature that quietly sets you apart from every other species is not your eyes or your opposable ...

A new study suggests AI models like ChatGPT and Claude consistently overestimate how rational humans really are, leading them ...

Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights into why miscarriages occur and how they can be prevented.

When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ...

Let's all recall that in the Moon landings, no science was performed by the Astronauts. Apollo was a magnificent geopolitical success, but the science was in the surface sample returns that were ...