Science

The entrance to Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq

Human Evolution Discoveries in Iraq

Fossils from the Shanidar Cave provide insights on health, violence and death rituals among Neanderthals

Will extraterrestrial caves house unusual life forms, as the Katafiki Cave in Greece does?

What Will We Find in Extraterrestrial Caves?

Scientists hope to look for extraterrestrial life in a new place: recently discovered caves in places like the moon, Mars and Titan

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Tarbosaurus on Trial

An almost certainly poached tyrannosaur skeleton kicks off a legal dispute over Mongolia's fossil heritage

London's a leader among smart cities

When Cities Run Themselves

This skull from the Petralona Cave is one of the few hominid fossils found in Greece that date to the Middle Pleistocene.

Where Are Greece’s Missing Hominids?

Given its location and climate, Greece should be filled with hominid bones and stone tools

A new reconstruction of Utahceratops at the Natural History Museum of Utah

Utahceratops Debut

There was a full artistic reconstruction in the 2010 paper that described the dinosaur, but it's another thing to see the dinosaur's reconstructed skeleton

The October 3, 2005 annular eclipse, as seen from Spain

The ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse You Might See Sunday

For the first time in 18 years, a solar eclipse will be visible in the continental United States

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When Dinosaur Parties Go Bad

The key take-home lesson: Never anger anyone with a thagomizer

Body suits are allowing paralyzed people to stand and move.

The Rise of the Bionic Human

New technology is allowing the paralyzed to walk and the blind to see. And it's becoming a smaller leap from repairing bodies to enhancing them

A new study indicates 3.6 percent of American adults are prone to sleepwalking, but scientists still don't understand what causes the phenomenon.

The Science of Sleepwalking

A new study indicates that a surprisingly high number of us are prone to sleepwalking. Should you wake a sleepwalker?

A speculative restoration of Australia's Cretaceous ceratosaur

Fragmentary Clue Reveals Australia’s First Ceratosaur

An isolated bone shows that Cretaceous Australia had an even richer mix of predatory dinosaurs

Someone painted this rhinoceros on a wall in France's Chauvet Cave about 30,000 years ago.

The Top Four Candidates for Europe’s Oldest Work of Art

The discovery of 37,000-year-old cave art showing female genitalia adds to the list of contenders

A Tyrannosaurus stands over the remains of an abandoned mini-golf course.

Dinosaur Sighting: Tyrannosaurus Golf

Dinosaurs probably wouldn't have been very good at mini-golf—imagine a Carnotaurus with a putter—but they make for excellent fairway decor

A slime mold is used to design an efficient U.S. interstate system.

If the Interstate System Were Designed by a Slime Mold

How a brainless, single-celled organism created a startlingly efficient route map for U.S. highways

A sculpture of Torosaurus—or, according to some, a mature Triceratops—outside Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Dear Media, Leave My Dinosaurs Alone

Lazy journalists and unscrupulous documentary creators have demonstrated that they just can't play nice with Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and kin

Betty White’s new book details her life of loving animals and working with zoos to help endangered species around the world.

Betty White on Her Love for Animals

Everyone knows the "Golden Girls" actress for her long television career, but she is just as proud of her work with zoos

Adult male orangutans have large cheek pads and a big throat pouch, but it can take decades to develop such traits.

Why Some Orangutans Never Want to Grow Up

Some males take decades to fully mature; this arrested development can improve their odds of mating success

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg thinks watching TV should be a social experience.

Is Facebook Good For TV?

It wouldn't seem to be. But social TV, where people interact with their friends on a second screen while they're watching a show, may be boosting ratings

The decaying head of King Kong's Brontosaurus, as seen at The Dinosaur Museum.

A Miniature Dinosaur Celebrity

King Kong's fearsome Brontosaurus found a home in an out-of-the-way Utah museum

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Ten Extremely Rare Seeds on the Brink of Extinction

The Millennium Seed Bank has set out to collect 25 percent of the world's plant species by 2020—before it is too late

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