Category science

The puppets, unearthed in El Salvador, have movable heads, strange facial expressions and may have been dressed for ritual roles.

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

Rowing machines and treadmills do not challenge your cardiovascular system in the same way, so what is the science behind it?

This new superconducting prototype quantum processor achieved benchmarking results to rival Google’s new Willow QPU.

At first glance, it’s a simple scene. Six adult bison and a calf mill around a stream. But if you look closer, the plot thickens. Beside a well-worn path to the stream sits a bison skull. This herd has clearly…

In a story of collaboration and community, researchers identified intergenerational epigenetic changes caused by war and trauma in Syrian refugees.

POLG-related diseases disrupt the function of the mitochondria, or “powerhouses” of the cell — starving them of energy.

Researchers have excavated a rare mammoth tusk discovered by a hunter on a West Texas ranch.

A Jewish ritual bath known as a mikvah discovered in Ostia Antica is more than 1,500 years old.

A new study charts the genetics of skin, hair and eye color in Europe over 45,000 years.