News

  1. Archaeology

    Ancient Egyptian scribes’ work left its mark on their skeletons

    Years of hunching over, chewing pens and gripping brushes left the skeletons of Egyptian scribes with telltale marks of arthritis and other damage.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Paleontology

    The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinct

    The last population of woolly mammoths did not go extinct 4,000 years ago from inbreeding, a new analysis shows.

    By Claire Yuan
  3. Astronomy

    We may finally know the source of mysterious high-energy neutrinos

    Regions around supermassive black holes in active galaxies could produce a lot of these mysterious particles.

    By Mara Johnson-Groh
  4. Health & Medicine

    Honeybees can “smell” lung cancer

    Bees can detect the scent of lung cancer in lab-grown cells and synthetic breath.