Category: Research

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    A Writer Who Delights in Demystifying the Arcane and Obscure

    Franz Lidz is fascinated by the eclectic and global nature of the archaeology beat.
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    How Did Maria Branyas Morera, Who Was the World’s Oldest Person, Live So Long?

    Spanish researchers say Maria Branyas Morera won a genetic lottery. But experts caution that healthy genes and microbiomes don’t explain longevity on their own.
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    The Megaraptor Had Giant Claws and an Appetite for Crocodilians

    A fossil of the 23-foot-tall predator could help unlock secrets of an order of dinosaurs that remain poorly understood.
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    Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur Revealed by ‘Shockingly Beautiful’ Fossil

    A specimen discovered in Mongolia is the most complete fossil yet found of a pachycephalosaur, a dinosaur believed to be built for head-butting.
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    A Forgotten Cosmic Impact Was Hidden in a Museum’s Glass Shards

    Scientists thought that an Australian museum’s collection of tektites came from an 800,000-year-old asteroid strike on Earth. Some of them turned out to be much older.
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    These Ants Found a Loophole for a Fundamental Rule of Life

    Researchers discovered that Mediterranean ants are having babies that belong to a different species.
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    Why the E.U. Is Banning Some Gel Nail Polish

    Starting this week, gel polishes that contain a key chemical ingredient can no longer be used in the bloc’s 27 member countries.
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    Why the E.U. Is Banning Some Gel Nail Polish

    Starting this week, gel polishes that contain a key chemical ingredient can no longer be used in the bloc’s 27 member countries.
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    The Space Rock Stars of Brazil

    An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for scientific study and public display.
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    In the Remains of Canada’s Jasper Wildfire, Clues to Tame Future Blazes

    A giant fire last year consumed much of Canada’s Jasper National Park. Canadian scientists leading research into wildfires are using the blaze to learn lessons for the future.
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    In the Remains of Canada’s Jasper Wildfire, Clues to Tame Future Blazes

    A giant fire last year consumed much of Canada’s Jasper National Park. Canadian scientists leading research into wildfires are using the blaze to learn lessons for the future.
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    In the Remains of Canada’s Jasper Wildfire, Clues to Tame Future Blazes

    A giant fire last year consumed much of Canada’s Jasper National Park. Canadian scientists leading research into wildfires are using the blaze to learn lessons for the future.
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    Scientists Perform First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant

    Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results.
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    A.I. May Be the Future, but First It Has to Study Ancient Roman History

    A software model from Google DeepMind put a more precise date on an important Latin text credited to a Roman emperor as a demonstration of its capabilities.
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    This Dinosaur Probably Tweeted More Than It Roared

    The anatomy of a Chinese fossil offers a hint that birdsong may be as old as the dinosaurs themselves.
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    A 900-Year-Old Typo May Unravel a Chaucer Mystery

    The Tale of Wade, twice referred to in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems, survives only in a tiny fragment. Two academics argue a scribe’s error deepened the confusion around it.
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    Videos From the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship

    Scientists are trying to understand footage that showed ocelots and opossums, usually predator and prey, hanging out together.
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    This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants

    While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for multiple ant species.
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    China Surveys Seabeds Where Naval Rivals May One Day Clash

    Chinese research ships are studying the seas for science and resources, but the data they gather could also be useful in a conflict with Taiwan or the United States.
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    How Elephants Say They Like Them Apples

    Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their intentions and wants.
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    U.S. Leaves Vietnam’s War Dead Unidentified

    Damien Cave, the Vietnam bureau chief for The New York Times, takes us to a cemetery in northern Vietnam, where scientists are using innovative DNA analysis techniques to match unidentified Vietnamese soldiers with their living relatives before U.S.A.I.D. cuts defund the program.
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    A Runestone That May Be North America’s Oldest Turns Up in a Canada Forest

    Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in northern Ontario. Now, revealing the stone’s existence, they’re asking the public for help.
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    DNA Discovery Gives Mysterious Ancient Humans a Face

    Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque.
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    When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere

    About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.
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    A Traveler Waits in the Stars for Those Willing to Learn How to Look

    A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier generation of scientists were willing to acknowledge.
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    South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.

    The budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to H.I.V. — and could affect American drug companies, too.
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    Bat Cave Footage Offers Clues to How Viruses Leap Between Species

    Video from a national park in Uganda depicted a parade of predatory species feeding on and dispersing fruit bats that are known natural reservoirs of infectious diseases.
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    First Ever Images of Sun’s South Pole Released by ESA Solar Orbiter

    Visuals from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region. Even better images are expected in the years ahead.
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    Ancient Trees, Dwindling in the Wild, Thrive on Sacred Ground

    Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old.
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    China Really Wants to Attract Talented Scientists. Trump Just Helped.

    Even before the U.S. threatened to bar international students and besieged universities, China’s huge spending campaign on the sciences was bearing fruit.
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    World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts

    With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences.
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    China to Launch Tianwen-2 Mission to Capture Pieces of Near-Earth Asteroid

    The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamo?oalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.
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    These Plants Protect Larvae From Wildfires

    Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.
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    This Was Odd: Capuchin Monkeys Kidnapped Howler Monkey Babies.

    Male capuchin monkeys on a Panamanian island were documented carrying around infant howler monkeys for no clearly discernible reason.
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    How a Two-Story Boulder Ended Up on a 120-Foot-High Cliff

    The rock called Maka Lahi is important in the mythology of the people of Tonga, and scientists have worked out part of its origin story.