Paul Smaglik

Modeling Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field from 41,000 years ago suggests how Homo sapiens' sun-fighting strategy helped sustain them as a species.

Learn how early humans made the 60-mile crossing from Europe to Malta, navigating at least partially by stars.

Learn how gravity and mass are pulling two stars into tighter, faster orbit around each other, with an explosive collision inevitable.

First-of-its-kind study links pollution produced by wildfires to emergency mental health visits.

The collection of Metoposaurid temnospondyl fossils unearthed in Wyoming tell an incomplete story.

Learn how a pair of kinases could help plant scientists engineer crops resistant to infectious diseases and boost wheat's immunity.

The rapid spread of illness in the African country may be due to contaminated water, rather than a virus that jumped from bat to human.

Learn why similar mineral deposits may represent a treasure trove of fossilized soft tissue.

Researchers keep finding microplastics in more parts of our bodies — and linking them to more health ill effects.

Comparing the prehistoric predator to today's great white probably resulted in an underestimation.

Learn why the temnospondyls' inability to evolve eventually did them in when mammals and dinosaurs appeared on the scene.

Learn how one victim of the A.D. 79 Mt. Vesuvius eruption experienced a singular set of tragic circumstances.

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) finds actively feeding black holes and a host of other black hole candidates.

A number of promising approaches involving molecules, stem cells, and inorganic chemistry are possible for the near future.

Study showed that patients who took longer to reach the dream state also had more biomarkers for the disease.

Understanding why storms sometimes engulf the entire planet within a layer of grit could prove crucial to future missions.

Find out how a New York couple helped unearth fossils from a species that frequently roamed Orange County 13,000 years ago.

Learn how two studies from Denmark expand upon earlier U.S. work that first linked the medication with the eye disease.

NASA's InSight lander used seismic waves to detect an abundance of water trapped in cracks within the planet's crust.

Studying rocks collected by the Apollo missions allowed scientists to break down the processes that formed the moon's atmosphere.