Europa is the smoothest solid object in our Solar System, thanks to its thick shell of ice. Yet beneath its smooth exterior, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon seems to harbor secrets – namely a deep, salty...
A team of researchers has cracked a five century-old code which reveals a rumored French plot to kill the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V. Charles was one of the most...
Humans may be just as vulnerable to environmental change as other animals, according to our new research analyzing genetic data from more than a thousand people who lived across Europe and Asia over the...
Long after its ancestors deleted their genetic code for a tough coat of armor, a seafaring octopus has reinvented a recipe for making a shell. A recent genetic analysis of the paper nautilus or...