A disease can vanish from public memory long before it vanishes from the world. That gap, between what society remembers and what microbes continue to do, has allowed some of humanity’s oldest killers ...

View of St Bavo’s Abbey in modern day. Image via Wiki Commons. Archaeologists have uncovered part of the long-buried Spanish Castle, a massive stronghold ordered by Emperor Charles V in the 16th ...

Neanderthals disappeared as a distinct population around 40,000 years ago. But some of their genetic variants are still subtly shaping some human bodies today. We know, for instance, that Neanderthal ...

A small group of brain cells may help keep motivation alive when a task gets harder, a new study in rats suggests. The neurons, already known for regulating sleep, appetite, and energy use, appeared ...

Digital rendering of the Atahensik corona on Venus and the Dali Chasma rift system—based on radar data from the Magellan ...

The researchers found that surviving plants kept their leaves far cooler than the surrounding air. After eight days of 60° ...