The researchers observed the behavior of a dolphin in shallow waters on the southern Great Barrier Reef over a four-year period, both through snorkeling and video. Overall, the dolphin stole food 11 ...

If you’ve ever come back from spring break with an ill-advised tattoo, congratulations—now you know how the moon feels. During the spring of ‘24 our satellite got pelted with an object as big as a six ...

Unfortunately we don’t live in that world, and many of us will spend our later years fighting off sarcopenia, or the loss of muscle mass as we age. To make matters worse, this gradual decline in ...

Earlier this year, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared an end to the “war on protein” and released a new, inverted food pyramid that put ...

How a single cell becomes a magnificent human brain capable of building airplanes and writing sonatas is “one of the great astonishments of the earth,” wrote physician, and author Lewis Thomas in his ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it didn’t just destroy Pompei, it also laid waste to the nearby town of Herculaneum. There, a library containing Greek and Roman papyrus scrolls was quickly ...

Led by primate researchers at the University of Barcelona in Spain and the Jane Goodall Institute in Senegal, the study focused on wild western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the savanna of ...

Of course, the models that most AI engineers seem to be most worried about are not the ones that are currently available to consumers. But one might presume that the companies that make chatbots could ...

Whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded has been the subject of debate for years. While the scientific consensus has shifted decidedly in the warm-blooded direction, just how warm their ...

Pottery is one of the most important early technological innovations in human history. Combining clay with fire allowed Neolithic people to create water-carrying vessels, cooking pots, storage ...

Humanity has been seriously considering building a permanent presence on the moon for at least 70 years. Earlier this year, erratic billionaire Elon Musk went a bit further, promising a “self-growing” ...

Mercury is roughly 100 million miles closer to Earth than Mars, but it takes a lot longer to get there. For example, NASA’s MESSENGER space probe launched in 2004 but didn’t insert into an orbit ...