For well over a century, reconstructing the story of prehistoric humans required finding physical human remains—a fossilized tooth, a dense inner-ear bone, or a burial preserved in a limestone cavern. Because...

Cruising through interstellar space more than 15.4 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) from Earth—where a radio signal traveling at the speed of light takes nearly 23 hours just to make a one-way trip—NASA's...

For more than six decades—since Joan Oró proposed in 1961 that volatile-rich comets could have delivered the carbon and nitrogen feedstocks needed to assemble the first nucleic acids—planetary scientists have...

Executive Telemetry: Following its October 26, 2026 Form S-1 initial public offering (IPO) registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the proposed Nasdaq ticker ANT, frontier artificial...

For nearly 22 years, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has acted as astronomy's fastest cosmic first responder. Launched on November 20, 2004, aboard a Delta II rocket, the 1,470-kilogram (1.5-ton) space...

When ocean temperatures climb by just one or two degrees Celsius above normal summer highs, most tropical coral reefs face a life-threatening crisis. Stressed by the heat, corals expel the colorful microscopic algae...

For more than four Earth years—spanning 1,645 Martian days (sols) inside Jezero Crater—NASA's Perseverance rover has carried five small swatches of astronaut spacesuit materials exposed directly to the Martian...

For a quarter of a century, the fossilized skull bones, vertebrae, and limb elements of a five-meter-long herbivorous dinosaur sat cataloged as an unremarkable specimen inside the collections of the Natural History...

Across the more than 160,000 described species of butterflies and moths (order Lepidoptera), adult wings take on an extraordinary diversity of silhouettes—from the hooked, dead-leaf profiles of anglewing butterflies...

Holding enough frozen water to raise global mean sea level by roughly 52 meters if completely melted, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) is the largest single reservoir of freshwater on Earth. For decades, long-term...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has issued a stark epidemiological warning: the ongoing Ebola outbreak across Central and East Africa is not yet under control. Speaking at a...

For more than a decade, paleontologists have debated how Spinosaurus aegyptiacus—the 15-meter, sail-backed predator of mid-Cretaceous North Africa—hunted its prey. One camp argued that the dinosaur plunged underwater...

In prokaryotic microbiology, horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a foundational engine of adaptation. Bacteria routinely exchange plasmids, transposons, and chromosomal islands across species boundaries via conjugation...

In the rugged red-rock badlands of Grand County, Utah—on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public land just north of Arches National Park—a team of paleontologists from the Utah Geological Survey (UGS) has opened a...

In 2008, evolutionary biologist Professor Jason E. Bond described a cryptic species of coastal dune-dwelling trapdoor spider native to California and named it Aptostichus stephencolberti in honor of television...

Across the 370-million-year evolutionary history of tetrapods, amniote lineages—including ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, sea turtles, cetaceans, pinnipeds, and penguins—repeatedly reinvaded the world's oceans...

For more than a decade after their 2010 discovery from a juvenile finger bone in Siberia's Denisova Cave, the Denisovans remained paleoanthropology's most famous "ghost lineage": an archaic human population whose...

Modern biology generates sequence data far faster than traditional research workflows can interpret it. Public repositories such as the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Reference Sequence (RefSeq)...

On October 28, 2026, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) confirmed the first case of New World screwworm...

In March 1969, four months before Apollo 11 touched down on Mare Tranquillitatis, NASA launched Apollo 9—a ten-day mission in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in which astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott, and Rusty...

In 1867, Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell proposed a famous thought experiment testing the statistical foundations of the Second Law of Thermodynamics: if a microscopic observer—later dubbed Maxwell's demon by...

As the 2026 Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) epidemic of Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) passes 10,060 confirmed cases and 4,890 deaths across eight Congolese provinces, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

Federal public health investigations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have traced a major multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis to shredded iceberg...

For more than two centuries of vertebrate paleontology, one physiological boundary has appeared virtually absolute: amphibians do not live in the open ocean. Whereas reptiles, mammals, and birds repeatedly invaded...