The construction workers weren’t looking for artifacts that morning. They were dredging the Korte Linschoten River—just another day, another load of clay—when a glint of iron caught someone’s eye.

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake. These lines in the mud are now pushing scientists to rethink the origin ...

Seasonal Body Image Dissatisfaction (SBID) was formally coined in a 2021 study, and the effect is remarkably pervasive.

When the archaeologists dated the boomerang in Poland, it was dated to 30,000 years ago. In the same area, a human thumb bone ...

Menno Schilthuizen is a Dutch evolutionary biologist, ecologist, and permanent research scientist at Naturalis Biodiversity ...

Road ecology, the scientific study of how road networks impact ecosystems, presents a perfect opportunity for community ...

Emily Dieckman joined Eos as an associate editor in 2023, after nearly 6 years writing and editing at the University of ...

People in Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas reported sightings of a fireball overhead on Thursday afternoon, 26 June. It ...

By sleeping on their left side, cats keep their left eye and visual field more exposed when they wake up. This setup funnels ...

Even seemingly benign behavior can backfire if you live in bear country. A discarded drum lid, a backyard bird feeder, an ...

For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged an exoplanet. I know what you’re thinking: “JWST ...

Purity relates to the idea that humans possess a deep-seated aversion to contamination and degradation, both physical and ...