100,000 years ago, one of the earliest Homo sapiens outside Africa was stabbed in the face, analysis finds
A microscopic analysis of the skull of Qafzeh 25 revealed a cut mark likely made by a stone tool 100,000 years ago.
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We remember little to nothing of early childhood — and a recent mouse study may help explain why
Early in life, neural networks in the brain's memory center are highly connected, and they are only later refined into precise systems, a mouse study finds.
Secretive Chinese probe snaps first photo of Earth's mysterious 'quasi-moon' — and it may pose a big problem
China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured the first close-up photo of one of Earth's "quasi-moons," Kamo'oalewa. However, the image and the timing of its rel...
Diagnostic dilemma: A woman heard voices for years — but not because of psychosis
After multiple hospital visits and unsuccessful antipsychotic treatments, a woman's doctors uncovered an overlooked explanation for her hallucinations.
'One of the oldest gravestones of a free Black person in America' discovered in Boston
Experts have identified the gravestone of Boston, a free Black man who died in 1729.
6,000-year-old broken ribs discovered in Syria may be one of the oldest known cases of child abuse in the world
Around 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, an infant suffered severe injuries in what might be the Middle East's earliest documented case of child abuse.
'Time was speeding up, slowing down, or even stopping': Physicist demonstrates a key theory of time by building a 'mini-universe' in his lab
By ignoring part of his own experiment, a physicist coaxed time to emerge from within a closed quantum system.
2,500-year-old tomb of a 'warrior prince' with chariot and helmet discovered on Italy's Adriatic coast
Archaeologists have excavated a royal burial ground of the Piceni, a mysterious pre-Roman civilization in Italy that is not well known historically.
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Euclid telescope discovers the 2 most ancient monster black holes in the universe — each brighter than a trillion suns
A collection of newfound objects discovered by the Euclid telescope more than doubles the number of known quasars from the universe's first billion years.
Colorful 'painting-like' ripples cover an ancient seafloor structure in the Bahamas — Earth from space
A 2020 satellite photo shows off the ethereal beauty of submerged sandbanks and seagrass beds in the Great Bahama Bank. This massive underwater structure is ...
Scientists just created the most lifelike cell ever made in a lab — here's what it could accomplish
SpudCell is a new cell-like platform that can feed, grow and divide like a normal cell — but it's not yet a perfect re-creation of the real thing.
Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds
Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same hunting strategies and symbolic trad...
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