Science Advances

The discovery of 60,000-year-old quartz arrowheads in South Africa with plant toxin residue is the oldest direct evidence of poisoned…

Archaeologists in Malawi have discovered Africa's oldest known cremation pyre, dating back about 9,500 years, challenging previous assumptions about early…

Engineers have developed a functional magnetic cloaking device that shields complex objects from detection, moving the technology from theory to…

A new magnetic cloaking design overcomes previous shape limitations, using a hybrid system of superconductors and ferromagnets to make objects…

The introduction of synthetic pigments in the 19th century provided artists with vibrant colors like emerald green, but these pigments…

The Maya repurposed existing lunar month tables in the Dresden Codex for long-term eclipse prediction, rather than creating a unique…

Mars is dominated by powerful winds and dust, which create dust devils and planet-wide storms that significantly influence the environment.…

A "prebunking" approach, which prepares the public to resist conspiracy theories before they spread, is proposed as a psychological vaccine…

Wild chimpanzees regularly consume fermented fruit, with daily ethanol intake equivalent to a human drinker, supporting the "drunken monkey hypothesis"…

AI-generated content is increasingly prevalent in scientific research, with studies identifying linguistic patterns (e.g., overused words like "garnered") that reveal…

Japanese researchers completed a 45-hour canoe voyage using Paleolithic-era tools, demonstrating how ancient humans might have migrated across treacherous ocean…