Scientists Discovered a 'Dragon Man' Species That May Be Our Closest Relative
A skull from Harbin City, China, dates back at least 146,000 years and is “one of the most complete archaic human fossils” ever found.
Everybody Be Quiet Please, These Weird Fish Are Trying to Bone
Boat noises reduce the communication range of male toadfish by 75 percent, which affects their ability to attract mates.
Climate Change Added $8.1 Billion to Hurricane Sandy's Economic Damage, Study Finds
Damages from Hurricane Sandy in the New York tri-state area were about 13 percent higher as a result of human-linked sea level rise.
Scientists Created a Video Game That Makes People Hear Sounds That Aren't Real
A new study induced hallucination-like perceptions in humans and mice to better conditions such as schizophrenia.
Does This 7,000-Year-Old Poop Belong to a Human or Dog? Machine Learning Has the Answer
Scientists collect so much ancient poop that they designed an AI to tell ancient dog and human feces apart based on preserved DNA.
An Incomplete History of Humans Killing ‘Miracle’ Animals
In honour of the late but great frog in the pepper, here are some other extraordinary animals killed by bureaucrats or just plain old human ineptitude.
3,500-Year-Old Trash Proves Ancient Civilizations Were Just as Lazy and Wasteful as We Are
Piles of single-use clay vessels were found near ruins in Crete, essentially serving as the red Solo cups of their time.
Highways Are Driving Cougars to Inbreeding and Extinction In Southern California
SoCal's mountain lions are on track to be wiped out within 50 years, but conservation projects could save them.
‘Runaway Collapse’ of Environment Could Cause the Next Great Recession
“Mainstream political and policy debates have failed to recognize that human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage.”
'What Are You Most Afraid of?' Today's Comic by Sung Hyun Kim
Two circles discuss their deepest fears.
I'm Sick of Not Having Been Abducted by Aliens
Report after report suggests the existence of extraterrestrial life. Yet, last night in Queens, a mysterious bright blue sky that was later revealed to be an explosion at a power plant cruelly reinforced a painful reality: I'm still here on Earth.
Our Main Takeaways From Motherboard’s Poll About the Future
Here are highlights from our poll of 105 experts about the marvels and horrors we may experience over the coming decades and centuries.