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For a century, experts dismissed a series of parallel red lines discovered in a Welsh cave as a phenomenon of nature rather than human-made rock art.…

In this excerpt from “Cats: A History” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026), author Rod Phillips, professor of history at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, examines a bizarre…

QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Laguna Colorada, Altiplano, Bolivia [-22.19489413, -67.77420764]What’s in the photo? Rust-colored water appears to bleed across a salt bedWho took the photo? An…

NASA has confirmed that a bright fireball meteor exploded in the sky over New England on Saturday (May 30), releasing the equivalent energy of about 230…

As astronauts prepare for long-duration missions to the moon and Mars, sustaining human life far from Earth will depend on solving a gauntlet of technological challenges.…

The first-ever whole-genome sequence of a Greenland shark has revealed genetic clues to how the animals avoid cancer and live for hundreds of years. The work…

Heading a soccer ball just once is enough to temporarily release proteins into the blood that are associated with damage to brain cells, a new study…

Around 5.4 million years ago, two rivers flowed across present-day Turkey and Syria and into the Mediterranean Sea — and eventually, they would merge to form…

(Image credit: © Forum Gesseler Goldhort)QUICK FACTSName: Gessel gold hoardWhat it is: 117 gold objectsWhere it is from: Syke, northern GermanyWhen it was made: Circa 1300…

There’s an army of tiny workers buzzing around our fields, helping our food grow. But over the past few decades, populations of bees and other insect…