With Drought, ‘Spanish Stonehenge’ Emerges Once Again
Although an Augustóbriga aqueduct, paved roads and thermal baths were sacrificed to the dam, a second-century A.D. temple, known as Los Mármoles (the Marbles), was...
Breast Implants May Be Linked to Additional Cancers, F.D.A. Warns
They are extremely rare, he added, and the new warning should not be cause for widespread alarm. The realization that A.L.C.L. was linked to breast...
This Jellyfish Can Live Forever. Its Genes May Tell Us How.
Fleets of tiny translucent umbrellas, each about the size of a lentil, waft through the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. These miniature jellyfish, known as...
The Curious Hole in My Head
I barreled into the world — a precipitous birth, the doctors called it — at a New York City hospital in the dead of night.In...
Oldest human or just another ape? Row erupts over 7m-year-old fossil
Remains from Chad desert provoke rancorous dispute over whether species was earliest to walk uprightIt is a dispute that has taken a long time to...
A Volcano Erupted Without Warning. Now, Scientists Know Why.
Last year, one of the most dangerous volcanoes in Africa erupted without warning.In a way, Nyiragongo, a vertiginous volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo,...
A Long-Lost Branch of the Nile Helped in Building Egypt’s Pyramids
For 4,500 years, the pyramids of Giza have loomed over the western bank of the Nile River as a geometric mountain chain. The Great Pyramid,...
Some Monkeys Use Stone Tools for Pleasure, Study Suggests
To systematically investigate the hypothesis, Ms. Cenni and her colleagues analyzed the stone-handling actions of 173 monkeys. They found that young males engaged in the...
Watch NASA’s Artemis Moon Rocket Roll Out to the Launchpad
What are the Space Launch System and Orion, and why are they important?The Space Launch System and Orion are two of the core components of...
Why a Century-Old Vaccine Offers New Hope Against Pathogens
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when prevention seemed light years away, several scientists launched trials to see whether a tuberculosis vaccine developed...