A beach in the Australian state of South Australia has been closed due to a mysterious foam. Surfers have reported cold and flu symptoms after visiting Waitpinga Beach. Numerous dead fish have also ...

A worker adjusts brocade on a loom at the Veba textile factory in Broumov, Czech Republic, Tuesday 25 September 2012.

In one example, a study published last year found that people with Neanderthal DNA are more sensitive to certain types of pain. Does the Natural History Museum’s Neanderthal man look familiar?

This past summer, Paabo announced that he and his co-workers were going to take the next—and biggest—step, in their effort to resurrect the genome of the Neanderthal, our distant evolutionary ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil ... Apr. 1, 2025 — More ...