Scientists may have recovered DNA belonging to Leonardo da Vinci from a drawing and other objects he touched while alive. If they’re correct, this development
Herpesviruses and humans are old companions. To help uncover our relationship with this ubiquitous gang of viruses, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of herpesviruses from
A study from the University of Michigan has identified the countries with the highest levels of narcissism. As well as ranking the world in terms
Each new year, many people resolve to change their diets, and some decide explicitly to lose weight. But going too hard on our new regimens
Prehistoric hunter-gatherers in South Africa applied deadly poisons to their stone arrows 60,000 years ago. Amazingly, the toxin they used is still employed by some
New Year’s celebrations are a little bit different in Antarctica. Under the relentless summer daylight and searing cold, the ragtag crew of souls who have
A series of 773,000-year-old human remains in Morocco may represent a population of hominins that lived just as our own species split off from our
Contrary to previous suspicions, Europe probably had many species of ceratopsian dinosaurs, a clade of large herbivores whose most famous member is Triceratops. Ceratopsian fossils
It’s a question asked – often loudly, at 2 am – by everyone who’s ever had to share a bed with a snorer: how the
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Picture this: Prague, October 1604. The then 34-year-old astronomer Johannes Kepler was looking at the constellation of Ophiuchus, and he spotted something that he had
We all know we shouldn’t really eat raw cookie dough, right? But why? Is it just because your mom wanted to maximize the number of cookies
On April 23, 1972, Apollo 16’s Lunar Module and its crew of two NASA astronauts – John W. Young and Charles M. Duke – left
The first confirmed discovery of an exoplanet was announced in 1992, when astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail reported two or more planet-sized bodies orbiting
Some animal names really like to keep you guessing. Just take the “psychedelic earth tiger,” for example. Not a hallucinogen, planet, or tiger, but in
Are you a Duolingo dabbler, bilingual from birth, or a perfect polyglot? This new “multilingual calculator” can help you find out. In a new study,
Europa is one of the four largest moons of Jupiter. It has an icy surface that hides a deep ocean, containing maybe two to three
