Adrian Villellas
Archaeologists were exploring ordinary farmland in Central Europe, and what they found underground forces us to rethink 5,000 years of funerary history
A 551-million-year-old site is forcing us to rewrite our understanding of an early mass extinction, and the loss of life may have been much greater than previously thought
The “pink fairy” has reappeared in a reserve in Mendoza, and its return confirms that an ecosystem that seemed silent still held an extraordinary surprise
I retired with more money than I ever imagined I’d have, but I discovered that what disorients a person most isn’t stopping work, but waking up to a life in which no one seems to need anything from her anymore
Mosquitoes are drawn by exhaled CO2 and clothing contrast, not “sweet blood”, a Georgia Tech and MIT study shows
They reexamined the world’s largest T. rex skeleton and discovered something that forces us to rethink the true life of prehistory’s most feared predator
He thought he had struck gold in Australia, but for years he had held something far more improbable in his hands: a fragment of the solar system that predates our planet
No drills, no lasers, no giant robots: the latest outlandish idea in space mining involves a box the size of a Tupperware container and microbes capable of extracting metals from a meteorite in orbit
NASA is testing an idea in orbit that once seemed like science fiction and has discovered that a fungus can extract valuable metals from space rocks 400 kilometers above Earth
Scientists have discovered that a “young” region of Mars did not cool as quickly as previously thought, and that its magmatic system continued to evolve quietly for millions of years
Psychology suggests that the loneliest people in life are not usually the outcasts, but rather those kind, competent, and always-available individuals whom everyone values, but whom almost no one calls to ask how they are doing because they seem too strong to need care
A 183-million-year-old black rock is broken open in Germany, and the golden sheen of this Jurassic fossil turns out to be something other than what everyone had believed for decades
Engineers have developed a material capable of self-repairing more than 1,000 times, which promises to extend the service life of key components in airplanes, cars, and wind turbines for centuries
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is real, but AI chatbots and social media spread false claims about aliens
NASA has finally solved the mystery of the giant spiderwebs observed on Mars since 2006, and Curiosity’s findings have reignited the big question of how long water remained underground
Washington State University develops robots that pick apples and find strawberries as farms run short of workers











