For decades, biology textbooks taught a simple truth: you inherit your genes from your parents, and your life experiences are yours alone. If you suffer a traumatic event, that biological memory dies…

Recent neurological research has shifted the conversation around diet and obesity. It is becoming increasingly clear that overconsumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is often less about a lack of…

We often think of emotions as abstract feelings that live only in our heads. However, emerging research suggests that the feeling of awe—that jaw-dropping sense of wonder we get when looking at the…

For centuries, the plaster casts of Pompeii victims have told a heartbreaking story of families clinging to one another in their final moments. However, groundbreaking genetic research published in…

For decades, archaeology students were taught that humans arrived in North America roughly 13,000 years ago. A groundbreaking discovery at White Sands National Park in New Mexico has shattered that…

For the past decade, the field of social psychology has faced a reckoning known as the "replication crisis." It began with a simple question: If we run the same famous experiments again, will we get…

For decades, paleontologists have puzzled over why *Otodus megalodon*, the largest shark to ever patrol the oceans, vanished from the fossil record about 3.6 million years ago. New research has…

In the dark, twisting tunnels of the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa, a scientific battle is currently unfolding. At the center of this storm is *Homo naledi*, an ancient human relative with…

Neutron stars are among the densest objects in the universe, packing the mass of our sun into a city-sized sphere. However, astrophysicists and nuclear physicists have gathered compelling evidence…

For nearly two thousand years, hundreds of ancient scrolls lay buried under volcanic mud, resembling nothing more than lumps of charcoal. Historians and archaeologists knew these artifacts held lost…

For centuries, the Amazon rainforest was viewed as a pristine wilderness sparsely populated by small, nomadic tribes. That view has been shattered. Recent groundbreaking research published in the…

For decades, the paleontology community has been locked in a fierce dispute regarding a small, agile predator from the Late Cretaceous period. Was this creature a unique species known as…

The scientific community is currently engaged in a high-stakes discussion regarding the future of particle physics. At the center of this conversation is the Future Circular Collider (FCC), a…