In the first study, the team used data from the TIME Magazine Harry Potter quiz. Nearly 800,000 people had taken the quiz online. The researchers grouped the results by U.S. regions, called ...

The oldest physical boat is a canoe from roughly 10,000 years ago, but evidence suggests humans have been using watercraft ...

A new study has connected the famous m87 black hole, the first ever imaged, to its powerful cosmic jet, revealing how it launches particles at near light speed.

Imagine that you’re taking an evening stroll in the woods. All of a sudden, you spot a flash of color and two glowing eyes.

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the ...

A team hopes to place instruments in the waters beneath the colossal Thwaites Glacier, with the help of a drill that uses hot ...

A fast-aging fish is giving scientists a rare, accelerated look at how kidneys grow old—and how a common drug may slow that ...

Ancient DNA from 5,500-year-old remains in Colombia reveals syphilis-related bacteria existed some 3,000 years earlier than previously known, says a new study.

Two decades after a breast cancer vaccine trial, every participant is still alive—an astonishing result for metastatic ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

When large concepts are broken into small chunks—and learned through hands-on activities—students find confidence to tackle new challenges.