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 ...

Claire Maldarelli was previously science editor at Popular Science and a senior editor at Inverse. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times and Scholastic publications, among other outlets.

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 ...

It’s all of that and more, like the ability to walk upright. Bipedalism is a hallmark trait of our genus, but the particulars of how we got on our two feet are the subject of some debate. For example, ...

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 ...

As telescope technology continues to advance, the vistas of space they provide get more and more impressive. Case in point: this awe-inspiring shot of NGC 6888, better known as the Crescent Nebula, ...