A faint yet visible Martian aurora is the first instance of the phenomenon spotted from another planet's surface.

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A study in Uganda shows how often chimps use medicinal plants and other forms of health care — and what that says about the roots of human medicine.

It's not quite as bad as The Last of Us. But progress has been achingly slow in developing new antifungal vaccines and drugs.

Shape and symmetry help determine where a leaf lands — and if the tree it came from can recoup the leaf’s carbon as it decomposes.

In 2018, over 350,000 excess heart disease deaths were linked to phthalates. More research is needed to fully understand the chemicals' effects.

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This assassin bug's ability to use a tool — bees’ resin — could shed light on how the ability evolved in other animals.

Rosettes made by scraping Tête de Moine, or “monk’s head,” cheese result from variations in the friction between the blade and the cheese.

A study of weather on a mountain in Greece reveal that bioparticles in the sky may drive fluctuations in rainfall patterns more broadly.

In chess as in life, people use memory as a shortcut for decision-making. That strategy can backfire when the present doesn’t resemblance the past.

A revised age for a German site indicates that our evolutionary cousins organized horse ambushes around 200,000 years ago.