Science

Over a video call from a dig site near Oxford, England, Peter Falkingham points his phone down to show a…

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She is a two-time winner…

Expelling toxic “forever chemicals” from the body may take guts — or at least, their microbes. Some microbes found in…

The solar system’s newest visitor, 3I/ATLAS, may be 3 billion years older than the sun and its planets. First discovered…

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from…

A millennium-long story about Greenland is written in the genes of the island’s sled dogs. A new genomic analysis, published July…

An army of treelike creatures called Ents marches to war in the second The Lord of the Rings movie, The…

In a remote desert, scientists have discovered one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It dates to well over a billion…

H5N1 bird flu isn’t going away. In fact, the virus continues to spin off new versions that outcompete their predecessors,…

An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese,…