Mummified llamas stashed at a more than 500-year-old site on Peru’s southern coast offer the first direct glimpse of Inca ritual sacrifices of these animals.…
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The time it takes for a single particle of light to pass through a hydrogen molecule is now the shortest duration ever measured. This interval…
Malaria parasites survive tough times by not being too clingy. During Africa’s dry season, when mosquitoes are scarce, malaria parasites have a hard time spreading…
Past observations have suggested that there’s water on the moon. New telescope observations conclude that those findings hold water. Spacecraft have seen evidence of water…
On a day during the late Ice Age, a young adult or teen carrying a toddler hustled across a muddy flat where mammoths and giant…
There’s nothing Winifred Frick likes better than crawling through guano-filled caves and coming face-to-face with bats. As chief scientist of Bat Conservation International, she is…
An initial crop of clinical trials testing an anti-inflammatory drug against COVID-19 do not look promising. The best available evidence among these trials “doesn’t show…
Only two dinosaur species are known to have had wings made out of stretched skin, like bats. But unlike bats, these dinos were capable of…
A type of bone tool generally thought to have been invented by Stone Age humans got its start among hominids that lived hundreds of thousands…
An unforgiving environmental twist deserves at least some credit for the behavioral flexibility that has characterized the human species since our African origins around 300,000…