Science

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Ancient Boxes in a German Attic Rewrite the Story of a Neanderthal Elephant Hunt

A reexamination of bones discovered in 1948 is finally confirming that Neanderthals were skilled big-game hunters, not mere scavengers.

Apr 16, 2026

Water Bankruptcy" Is Already Here, Warns Youngest-Ever Stockholm Water Prize Winner

Exiled Iranian scientist Kaveh Madani says every inhabited continent is depleting freshwater systems faster than they can recover, and AI-driven data centers are making the crisis worse.

Apr 16, 2026

Ancient Farmers Accidentally Bred "Warrior" Wheat — and Modern Agriculture Had to Undo Their Work

A new study reveals that early domestication turned wheat into an aggressive competitor, but today's high-yield farming demands the opposite trait: cooperation.

Apr 16, 2026

How Astronaut Fitness Routines Could Help the Rest of Us Fight Back Pain and Aging

Decades of space medicine research show that the exercises astronauts use to combat microgravity's toll on the body hold valuable lessons for people on Earth dealing with muscle loss, back pain, and the effects of sedentary living.

Apr 16, 2026

Cloning's Hidden Flaw: 20-Year Study Reveals Mutations Build Up to Lethal Levels

A landmark experiment in which mice were cloned for 58 successive generations shows that far from being perfect copies, clones accumulate dangerous mutations that eventually make survival impossible.

Apr 16, 2026

Woman Sneezes 'Worms' From Her Nose in Extremely Rare Parasitic Fly Infection

Doctors in Greece extracted sheep bot fly larvae and a pupa from a woman's sinuses in a case they called "biologically implausible.

Apr 15, 2026

World's Oldest Confirmed Dog Pushes Canine History Back 5,000 Years

Genetic analysis of ancient remains in Turkey reveals that dogs were already fully domesticated 15,800 years ago and had spread across Europe with migrating hunter-gatherers.

Apr 15, 2026

Brain's Cleaning System Can Be Supercharged to Fight Alzheimer's Proteins

A novel drug combination boosts the brain's waste-disposal network, clearing toxic proteins and potentially delaying Alzheimer's onset by seven years.

Apr 15, 2026

How Flowers Quietly Conquered the Planet and Made Human Life Possible

A new book by biologist David George Haskell argues that flowering plants are the most powerful force in Earth's ecological history — not the delicate ornaments we imagine them to be.

Apr 15, 2026

The Bizarre World of Physics Units: How a 'Shed' Became Unimaginably Small

Nuclear physicists long ago defined a "shed" as an absurdly tiny unit of area, making "a shedload" far less impressive than it sounds.

Apr 15, 2026

Stunning Photo Captures South America's Only Bear in Its Threatened Cloud Forest Home

A rare Andean bear photographed high in a Colombian mossy tree has been shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards.

Apr 14, 2026

Comet PanSTARRS Is Brightening Fast — Here's How to Catch It This Week

The incoming comet could become visible to the naked eye as it makes its closest approach to the sun on April 20.

Apr 14, 2026