430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Found in Greece Rewrite the Story of Early Humans
Scientists have discovered the oldest hand-held wooden tools ever found, buried at an ancient lakeside site in Greece for nearly half a million years. The carved artifacts reveal that early humans were far more skilled and resourceful than researchers once believed.
Scientists Found a 100-Million-Year-Old Bug With Claws Like a Crab
Trapped in ancient amber from the age of dinosaurs, a newly discovered insect had crab-like grasping claws found in no living bug today — and its scientific name honors a famous K-pop group.
Mosquitoes Can Be Trained to Treat DEET as an Invitation to Bite
A new study shows that mosquitoes can learn to associate DEET bug spray with a meal, turning one of our best repellents into something that actually attracts them. Scientists say DEET still works, but how we use it matters more than we thought.
The Biggest Dinosaur Ever Lived — So Why Can't Scientists Agree on Which One It Was?
Dinosaurs like Patagotitan and Nagatitan were almost impossibly huge, but figuring out which one truly takes the crown is a surprisingly difficult puzzle involving floods, scavengers, and missing bones.
Scientists Scan a 380-Million-Year-Old Fish Skull and Find Clues to How Life First Left the Water
A rare fossil fish from Antarctica is giving researchers a detailed look at the brains and body features that helped ancient creatures make the leap from water to land.
Pigeons Have a Built-In Magnetic Compass — and Scientists Just Found It in Their Liver
For decades, scientists wondered how homing pigeons navigate hundreds of miles with pinpoint accuracy. The answer turned out to be hiding in one of the last places anyone expected: iron-filled immune cells tucked inside the liver.
Scientists Found an Ancient Crocodile Relative That Walked on Two Legs and Had a Beak
A newly discovered Triassic creature called Labrujasuchus expectatus belonged to the crocodile family tree but looked more like a bird-mimic dinosaur. The find fills a long-predicted gap in the fossil record and reveals just how wild prehistoric evolution could get.
Saturn Was Not Changing Its Spin — Its Aurora Was Tricking Scientists All Along
A mystery that puzzled astronomers for decades has finally been cracked. Saturn's aurora was creating a self-powered cycle of heat, wind, and electricity that made the planet appear to spin at different speeds.
Household Dishwashing Sponges Are Quietly Releasing Microplastics — Here Is What the Science Says
A new study found that kitchen sponges shed measurable amounts of microplastics during everyday use, but the research also uncovered a surprising finding about what actually causes the most environmental damage when you wash dishes.
This Solar-Powered Device Pulls Drinking Water From the Ocean — Without Creating Harmful Waste
Scientists engineered laser-textured metal panels that use sunlight to desalinate seawater, skip the toxic byproducts, and even recover valuable minerals like lithium.
Chimpanzees Build Friend Groups That Look a Lot Like Ours, Study Finds
A new study shows that chimpanzees and bonobos organize their social lives in layered circles, similar to how humans maintain close friends alongside larger networks of acquaintances.
NASA's Roman Telescope Could Discover 100,000 Exoplanets and Rewrite Planetary Science
A powerful new NASA telescope is preparing to search deep into the Milky Way, hunting for planets in ways no mission has tried before. The results could change everything we think we know about how worlds are born.