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These scientific feats set new records in 2024

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​science news​​​ By Andrea Tamayo     2024 was studded with record-setting scientific discoveries. From tracing the origins of glow-in-the-dark animals to developing the world’s →

What will space exploration look like under Trump?

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​science news​​​ By Lisa Grossman     The future of U.S. space exploration and NASA-funded science is up in the air as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to office. →

Archaeology’s top discoveries of 2024 include preserved brains and a lost city

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​science news​​​ By Maria Temming     Grizzly details about ancient child sacrifices, a map of a lost city in the Amazon and the answer to a Stonehenge mystery are some of this →

There’s a link between walking speed and ageing well. Here’s how you can improve it

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​conversation​​​ by  Andrés Ráfales Perucha  Pablo Gargallo Aguarón     For decades, we have known that the way you walk, in particular your walking speed, is tied to →

Here are 8 remarkable scientific firsts of 2024

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​science news​​​ By Sophie Hartley      Each year, scientists break new ground in their quest to understand life and the mysteries of the cosmos. Here are eight milestones in →

Britain’s largest ancient massacre may have included cannibalism

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science news By Bruce Bower     A 4,000-year-old murder mystery began with a massacre in what’s now southwestern England. Then came dismemberment, possibly accompanied by →

These discoveries in 2024 could be groundbreaking — if they’re true

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​science news​​​ By Maria Temming     In 2024, researchers turned up possible evidence of ancient life on Mars, hints that Alzheimer’s disease can spread from person-to-person and →

NASA’s Perseverance rover found a new potential setting for Martian life

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​science news​​​ By Nikk Ogasa     WASHINGTON D.C. — The Perseverance Rover on Mars may have stumbled upon the oldest rocks humans have ever seen and, possibly, evidence of a new →

The 2004 tsunami killed hundreds of thousands. Are we better prepared now?

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​science news​​​ By Carolyn Gramling     Twenty years ago, the seafloor west of Indonesia abruptly pushed upward as a deep undersea fault, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates →

Notre Dame is reopening. What does that mean for its acoustics?

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​science news​​​ By Emily Conover     Notre Dame is back. And so are its acoustics.     The Paris cathedral, which burned dramatically in a fire in 2019, is →

Dietary evidence bolsters Clovis hunters’ reputation as mammoth killers

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​science news​​​ By Anna Gibbs     Ancient North Americans are looking more and more like experienced mammoth killers.     Archaeologists have long debated →

Here’s how long it would take 100 worms to eat the plastic in one face mask

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​science news​​​ By Susan Milius     Insects rank high among humankind’s go-to creatures for strangeness: Think movie monster inspirations or extreme biophysics (SN: 11/7/22). So →

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