LATEST POSTS
Gobi Desert Fossil Reshuffles the Mammal Family Tree After 40 Years
A remarkably complete Cretaceous mammal skeleton named Ravjaa ishii, recovered from Mongolia's Gobi Desert, has resolved a four-decade dispute over where the enigmatic group Zhelestidae belongs in early mammal evolution — forcing scientists to redraw a key branch of the family tree.
Homo antecessor Cannibalized Adults and Children in Spain 850,000 Years Ago
Twenty-four new human fossil fragments from Spain's Gran Dolina cave show Homo antecessor systematically cannibalized both adults and children roughly 850,000 years ago, with cut marks and marrow-extraction fractures spanning tens of thousands of years of occupation.
Ancient Maryland Spearhead Yields Mammoth Blood, Upending Eastern Shore History
A knapped-stone spearhead quietly held in the Dorchester County Historical Society has yielded molecular traces linked to mammoth blood, marking the first known evidence of Paleoamerican mammoth hunting on Maryland's Eastern Shore and reshaping what researchers know about the region's earliest human inhabitants.
Sleep Incentives Raised College Grades — Here’s What Happens in Your Brain
A study using financial incentives to shift college students' bedtimes earlier found that more sleep directly improved academic performance — and the neuroscience of memory consolidation explains exactly why.
Indohyus: The Raccoon-Sized Herbivore That Started Whale Evolution
Indohyus, a raccoon-sized Eocene herbivore, took to water to escape predators — not to hunt — and its fossilized bones provide the most compelling evidence yet for how whales evolved from land-dwelling mammals.
SpaceX Launches 3 Giant BlueBird Satellites to Kill Cellular Dead Zones
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 3:42 a.m. ET on August 5 carrying three of the largest commercial satellites ever deployed in low Earth orbit — and the physics behind how they beam LTE to ordinary smartphones explains why direct-to-cell could finally eliminate coverage dead zones.Load More
TOP POSTS
January 26, 2026
January 26, 2026
January 26, 2026
EDITOR PICKS
December 12, 2024
December 6, 2024
