In the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed: "You'd see massive glacier calvings, and you'd just want to cry ...

A Taiwan–led study of Mandarin-speaking learners shows that the sounds we hear and produce are deeply shaped by our prior ...

Dozens of archaeological sites were destroyed by looting during Syria's civil war, which began in 2011 and lasted until 2024.

Swidden agriculture—often called "slash-and-burn"—has been practiced on every inhabited continent throughout human history, ...

SpaceX's mammoth Starship rocket blasted off Friday on another test flight stretching halfway around the world, this time ...

Historians and archaeologists know that maize was a central food source and cultural symbol across the ancient Maya world, ...

Chinese astronomers report the detection of a peculiar optical transient event that occurred in the center of a dwarf galaxy.

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus)—the world's biggest fish—are one of the most charismatic marine species. They connect with the ...

All cells in the human body—and the motions they enable, from our beating hearts to our wiggling toes—use energy generated by ...

When Amy posts a photograph of herself on Instagram, she knows what will attract attention. A picture of her in a bikini may ...

Modern research on secondary metabolites from microbes, plants and marine organisms has revealed a remarkable diversity of ...

People who receive information on social media play a greater role in the spread of misinformation than research has ...