Learn about ceramic frit pattern — the dotty design that makes your household appliances safer and more efficient.

Learn more about mad honey, how it's made, what it was once used for, and the reasons some people still use it today.

Discover a unique fossil find from the Australian Outback detailing how a large ichthyosaur preyed on a pterosaur before it ...

Experts aren't exactly sure why animals smile. Discover what we do know about animal facial expressions.

Discover the top stories from July 25 to July 31, 2026, including the latest update on the Ebola outbreak and a new dinosaur discovery from Zimbabwe. Missed some of our top stories from the week?

Learn how a skull fragment from inland Spain is adding to evidence that human evolution in Europe followed no single path.

Learn how the fungus that turns ants into zombies also overruns mosses, revealing the bizarre way that it manipulates the ...

Alongside Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA, human genomes preserve traces of two other relatives no one can identify. Neither has a sequenced genome or a confirmed fossil, and part of one may be sitting ...

Learn how centuries-old DNA linked an extinct virus to European colonization and its spread through an Indigenous community ...

Learn about a 30-million-year-old dog that climbed and ambushed prey, but lacked the ability to run for long distances like ...

Learn more about some of the long-term effects of taking melatonin as an adult or a child.

Learn how specialists are recovering fragile woolly mammoth bones and investigating whether the Danube carried them to ...