Tracking global migration has long been hampered by poor, outdated data. Now researchers have harnessed social media data to create a near real-time map of international movement.

Learn how the boundaries of the magma chamber beneath Yellowstone have been located, and discover how these boundaries hint at the volcano’s future behavior.

Learn about Mars’ defunct magnetic field, which may have sustained life on the planet and covered only its southern hemisphere over 4 billion years ago.

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 more about this ancient art piece and the reason some experts believed it was carved.

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to form water.

Learn more about the health benefits of fermented foods like sauerkraut, which may give your gut a protective boost.

Learn more about the big differences between the two most common types of cutting boards, and how both need to be kept scrupulously clean.

Learn about the optical rotatum, a newfound structure of light that exhibits a spiral pattern linked with various parts of nature.

Although a bracket fungus proved to be the least palatable, it is not poisonous. This conclusion could make scientists rethink the relationship between taste and toxicity.