As I highlighted in a recent paper, an extraordinary range of adaptations have evolved in aquatic plants for life beneath the ...

More than 200 million years ago, life on Earth was experimenting with new forms. The Triassic period gave rise to animals ...

Natural hallucinogens, such as psilocybin, mescaline, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and related compounds, have generally ...

Archaeologists have long pictured prehistoric hunters taking down mammoths and other megafauna using the atlatl, a handheld spear-throwing device that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity and ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how ants, dolphins and birds use inter-species cooperation ...

Natural hallucinogens, such as psilocybin, mescaline, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and related compounds, have generally received attention for their ...

For decades, archaeologists have assumed that members of the Palaeoindian Clovis culture used a weapon called an atlatl to ...

A new statistical study challenges one of archaeology's longest-standing assumptions, raising fresh questions about how North ...

The tricks of the jail jargon Fenya were once used to bewilder guards in Stalin's Gulags. Now they are being used by Russian ...

Archaeologists working at the Lingjing site in Henan, China, have pushed back the earliest known systematic stone-blade ...

A newly discovered Himalayan spider with a striking smile-like pattern is reshaping what scientists thought they knew about one of the world's most recognizable arachnids. A tiny spider with an ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...