Category science

As of now, 17 states have reported H5N1 bird flu cases in humans, but there is still no evidence for transmission between people. Could that change?

Paleontologist David Hone’s latest book fleshes out our understanding of dinosaur behavior.

A Bronze Age settlement hidden on the Arabian Peninsula reveals secrets about the slow growth of urbanization in the region.

The fossilization of the tadpole’s “delicate structures,” like its eyes and gills, allowed for a detailed analysis of the rare find.

Fossils of the ancient frog Notobatrachus degiustoi push the known tadpole timeline back more than 30 million years.

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

A new computer vision system inspired by the design of a feline eye could give future drones and other military robots the ability to track targets in low-visibility and dynamic environments.

Vespa orientalis fed an 80-percent-ethanol brew still did hornet tasks and had normal life spans. This trick may be an adaptation to gut-dwelling yeast.

Eek! A horrible death could explain the horrified look on one Egyptian mummy’s face. Her remains were unearthed in the 1930s in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. They’d been found in a burial chamber from roughly 3,500 years ago.…

A new U.N. report has found the world will warm by twice the 1.5-degree-Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement by 2100 if countries fail to slash greenhouse gas emissions right now.