Gerlach was arrested while walking back to his car carrying a crowbar and a burlap bag, in which officers found the mummified ...

Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their ...

Last summer I polled the great art houses of Europe with a seemingly straightforward question: Had they had any recent experiences with mold in their collections? Mold is a perennial scourge in ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

When Google released its newest AI image model Nano Banana Pro (aka Gemini 3 Pro Image) in November, it reset expectations for the entire field. For the first time, uses of an image model could use ...

Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.

Our culture presents a confusing array of messages about bodies, eating, and health. We see media images that promote unrealistic (and generally unreal) bodies, sensationalized news stories about ...

In a proof-of-concept study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, headfirst, down an ice-coated mountainside chute on a thin sled with no safety equipment other than a ...