Scientists observe bumblebees rolling a ball underneath a flower to get sugar, showing complex problem-solving abilities.

Experts have identifed a gigantic scorpion that lived 415 million years ago from pieces of fossil found in the UK. The ...

The claim that their loved ones’ deaths and disappearances are linked is almost certainly false — but the loss remains real.

When British archaeologists completed radiocarbon analysis of a skeleton that came to be known as Cheddar Man, they estimated his age at 10,000 years. They paused, amazed, and repeated the dating ...

The phenomenon is being blamed on a “heat dome,” a high-pressure system that has become stuck over Europe, trapping hot air ...

Deep beneath the ocean, scientists uncovered thriving microbial life in one of Earth’s harshest environments—an area with a pH of 12, where survival seems nearly impossible. Using lipid biomarkers ...

About 400 years ago, beavers were hunted to extinction across Britain. Now they're being reintroduced as little climate ...

A string of deaths and disappearances involving at least 11 American scientists has sparked growing speculation, with some questioning whether the cases — often ruled accidents or suicides — are ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The issue, of course, is that the evidence that there’s any connection between the ...

Scientists have discovered a massive ancient volcanic rock structure beneath Bermuda, explaining the island's buoyancy and ...

The comedian, actor – and now novelist – on modern attitudes to imperialism, the demise of cancel culture and his love of Jeremy Clarkson ...

In April a writer friend e-mailed me a story from the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail—“Mystery surrounds death of NINTH scientist tied to US secrets as disturbing pattern grows”—with the comment, “and ...