James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

Past the agricultural revolution, there’s something of a sea-change in how dogs are found in the archaeological record. They ...

The Wild Ones contend with rapids, bees, and poachers’ snares to gather critical data on one of the world’s rarest tigers.

O rcas are easily recognized by their jet-black bodies punctuated with striking white markings, most notably the “eye patch” ...

I am, of course, talking about the famous Scopes (Monkey) trial that is familiar to many Americans today. But it seems that ...

B urmese pythons ( Python bivittatus) don’t believe in waste, digesting not only the muscle and fat of their prey, but the ...

A fter more than 40 years of exploration and excavations at the ancient Maya city of Caracol, researchers have finally unearthed a tomb belonging to one of its rulers. Even more significantly, the ...

Because it has natural language capabilities – powered by the same kind of machine learning that underpins ChatGPT – the ...

The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

On July 1, the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope reported the discovery of A11pl3Z, an ...

Increasingly large numbers of people seem to listen to audiobooks, podcasts, or recorded lectures at faster speeds, but what ...

Why was the adder going for prey so much bigger than itself? Turns out, it was likely in need of a hefty meal. “The female ...