An interstellar traveler has been discovered passing through our solar system.
The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.
Adult brains grow new neurons, and scientists have finally pinpointed where they come from. These new findings settle a major dispute that neuroscientists have been arguing about for more than 60 years.
An anthropologist investigates how archaeology helped the U.S. colonize the Panama Canal Zone—just as the current U.S. government threatens to retake it.
Switching gears
It’s clear that we’re on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. The domestic stoking of anti-vaccine sentiment is itself infectious—a disease-carrying rat population on the ships exporting American culture.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe
From viruses to humans, life makes microproteins that have evaded discovery until now.
Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body
As powerful as the Large Hadron Collider is, it does have one blind spot: long-lived neutral particles that can slip through the detector before they're found. Coming up soon is an upgrade, called MATHUSLA, that hopes to change that.
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