Humans

Archaeology

See what these animal mummies are keeping under wraps

A new method of 3-D scanning mummified animals reveals life and death details of a snake, a bird and a cat that lived in ancient Egypt.

Brain

Confidence can make you miss important information

Being confident can feed a confirmation bias in us, new studies show. This bias can make your brain ignore other people’s ideas and any conflicting information.

Health & Medicine

A glowing new way to measure antibodies

Researchers invent a way to detect and measure antibodies with glowing proteins. Antibodies can mark exposure to various diseases.

Archaeology

Stonehenge enhanced voices and music within the stone ring

Scientists built a 'Stonehenge Lego' model in a sound chamber to study how sound would have behaved in the ancient stone circle.

Archaeology

Let’s learn about ancient technology

Ancient people didn’t have the internet. Instead, they performed surgeries, made weapons and built monuments with wood, stones, rope and fire.

Health & Medicine

Healthy screen time is one challenge of distance learning

How you use screens is more important than the amount of time you spend on them. Sit less, experts say, and use those screens mainly to learn and engage with others.

Psychology

A secret of science: Mistakes boost understanding

Everyone makes mistakes. It turns out that how you view them says a lot about how — and how much — you’ll learn.

Science & Society

Top 10 tips on how to study smarter, not longer

Here are 10 tips — all based on science — about what tends to help us learn and remember most effectively.

Health & Medicine

Four summer camps show how to limit COVID-19 outbreak

Schools might take a lesson from these overnight facilities in Maine. They kept infection rates low by testing a lot and grouping kids into ‘bubbles.’

Health & Medicine

Here’s how COVID-19 is changing classes this year

To keep students and teachers safe from COVID-19, some things in the classroom are changing — and sometimes entire schools are being kept closed.

Archaeology

Women like Mulan didn’t need to go to war in disguise

Female skeletons in Mongolia show injuries like those of fighting men — evidence that they could be warriors, too.

Microbes

Some deep-seafloor microbes still alive after 100 million years!

Some starving microbes nap while awaiting their next meal. For some living miles below the ocean surface, that nap may exceed 100 million years.