Margherita Bassi

How frequently do you remember dreams? Have you ever woken up knowing you’ve dreamed but been unable to recall the details? It turns out that the ability to remember a dream might be influenced by a combination of factors. Researchers […]

With less than 0.04 inches of rainfall each year, cities in Chile’s barren Atacama Desert—one of the driest places in the world—collect their water from ancient underground water sources. Now, researchers have identified another simple method that could help address

The average Londoner might be shocked to hear that, over the past two hundred years, hundreds of human bones have been discovered in the River Thames. As new research shows, a sizable portion of these remains date back to prehistoric

Come springtime, many of us will be sniffling from seasonal allergies. Scientists recently identified some potentially fundamental differences between people with runny-nose allergies and those without—and it has to do with nose fungi. An international team of researchers say people

While many people worry about the photogenic layout of their teeth, chances are most don’t think about individual tooth shape. Well, you should—because it might be partially determined by your Neanderthal ancestry. An international team of researchers co-led by Kaustubh

After spinning in a vortex for months, the world’s largest and oldest iceberg is on the move again. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey announced on Friday that the colossal iceberg, designated A23a, is floating across the Southern Ocean. The

In the 1970s, archaeologists unearthed prehistoric human remains from a deep underground shaft in Somerset, England. The truth of what really happened to those men, women, and children, however, has only recently come to light. Archaeologists in the UK and

Rising sea levels cause visible damage to coastal communities—but we should also be worried about what’s happening beneath our line of sight, as upsetting new research suggests. New research from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the U.S. Department of

What would you do if, while serving on the Roman Empire’s northern frontier, you suddenly realized your chainmail needed repairing? An international team of scientists now thinks soldiers may have turned to local craftspeople for help. Researchers in Czechia and

Imagine finding a pebble and discovering it’s actually a 3,500-year-old artifact. That’s exactly what happened to a young girl in Israel, who suspected her find was special even before she and her mother sought expert advice. 12-year-old Dafna Filshteiner found