The earliest bird reared by humans may have been a cassowary, according to a new study. This aggressive bird is best known for its long dagger-like toe and colorful plumage.
No one result can serve as definitive proof of what dark energy is, but this experiment supports the idea that dark energy is a fundamental property of a space.
Fossils of a new group of animal predators have been located in the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fossil locality in North Greenland. These large worms may be some of the earliest carnivorous animals to have colonized the water column more than 518 million years ago, revealing a past dynasty of predators that scientists didn't...
When Hurricane Larry made landfall two years ago, it dropped over 100,000 microplastics per square meter of land per day. It’s another ominous sign of how plasticized the environment has become.
In 1949, an American author named Joseph Campbell published a book titled The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in which he claims that, fundamentally, all the great stories that human beings have ever told follow the exact same pattern, which is innate in the human consciousness and therefore present in every culture during every...
Those results build on midstage trial data Moderna and Merck released earlier this year, which examined the efficacy of the combination over a shorter period.
The advent of stone-, bronze-, and iron-working were all turning points in human history. But what about the working of wood? Learn more about the material ages of archaeology — and whether wood is one of them.