Google News Content : ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News and Amazing Breakthroughs

The desert sands of Egypt have been dry for thousands of years.

As difficult as it is to picture now, however, much of that desert was once submerged beneath a sea that covered much of the northern perimeter of the African continent.

Nor was it a dead sea – evidence suggests that, during the Cretaceous period, it may have been a tropical wonderland, where risin...

When you recognize a familiar face, your brain must connect that face with a name, a place, and perhaps a memory.

Those pieces of information are not necessarily handled in the same part of the brain. Yet they come together so smoothly that you experience them as a single thought.

Scientists may now have found one way the brain pulls off this trick.

A ne...

You probably remember learning about Earth's internal layers when you were a kid in Earth Sciences class: a superhot, solid inner core, surrounded by a molten metal outer core (how metal!), and a solid-but-v...

Your birthday tells you how many years you have been alive. But it cannot tell you whether your heart, brain, or kidneys have weathered those years equally well.

That's because organs within the same body can show different levels of biological aging.

A new ...

As the recent global pandemic waned – and the urgent need for widespread remote work began to fade into history – a new view started to emerge.

It suggested remote work wasn't as effective ...