James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

Past the agricultural revolution, there’s something of a sea-change in how dogs are found in the archaeological record. They ...

The Wild Ones contend with rapids, bees, and poachers’ snares to gather critical data on one of the world’s rarest tigers.

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Because it has natural language capabilities – powered by the same kind of machine learning that underpins ChatGPT – the ...

The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

Increasingly large numbers of people seem to listen to audiobooks, podcasts, or recorded lectures at faster speeds, but what ...

From 1835 to 1954, a surge of dam building in North America and Europe nudged the poles toward the equator. During this ...

Hopkins and Lintott are two of the six authors of a new paper that uses the new model to trace the origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS, ...

We spoke to the first author of a new study that could challenge much of what we thought we knew about Alzheimer’s disease.

Pseudoscorpions are tiny scorpion-like arachnids. They are found in many habitats across Earth, but some never see the light ...