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 ...

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 ...

People often take antihistamines for eczema, but a large-scale meta-analysis now debunks their effectiveness and advises ...

Learn how capsaicin changed response to laser pain and why one painful sensation may briefly dampen another.

Learn more about apoptosis' role in cancer and how finding the best animal model to test cancer drugs may lead us to cows. To stay healthy and eliminate accumulated genetic errors, our bodies ...

Learn how a cave’s difficult descent and flooded passage preserved evidence of Zoque rain and fertility rituals in Chiapas, Mexico, for over 1,100 years. To reach the deepest chambers of a cave tucked ...

Learn more about these 5 recent dementia breakthroughs that highlight possible interventions, diagnosis methods, and ...