850,000-year-old child's vertebra with cut marks reveals early human cannibalism at Gran Dolina, shedding light on Homo antecessor behavior.

On the slopes of Martian mountains and craters clings what appears to be flowing honey, coated in dust and frozen in time. In reality, these features are incredibly slow-moving glaciers, and their contents were once thought to be mostly rock enveloped in some…

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the dust of nearby galaxies and into the aftermath of a black hole's stellar feast.

The astounding collection of soft-bodied Cambrian fossils was found buried in the walls of the vast US canyon.

Two days this summer have been unusually short, with the shortest expected on Aug. 5, leading global timekeepers to consider adding a negative leap second.

Once dismissed as “junk,” pieces of ancient viral DNA in our genome are now known to help control which genes are turned on or off.

In this episode of The Joy of Why, Thomas Hertog discusses his collaboration with Stephen Hawking on a provocative theory arguing that the laws of physics evolved with the universe, and how this could have shaped a cosmos fit for life.

Researchers used machine learning to reanalyze Yellowstone's historical earthquake data, revealing that humans may have missed a few things.

It suggests that such complex appendages already evolved among reptiles before the origin of birds and their closest relatives.

"We're helping farmers."

Astronomers have discovered rare object in the outer solar system, called 2020 VN40, that is moving in resonance with Neptune "like finding a hidden rhythm in a song."

A massive great white shark unlike any seen before was recently captured off the coast of Florida. With a size that defies all expectations, this extraordinary discovery is challenging everything we know about these apex predators.

In a key advance for regenerative medicine and gut health, scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have uncovered a precise and unexpected communication system in the gut. Support cells known as …

"We've been waiting to reach this point for a long time."

IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 The new copper-based alloy developed in Japan maintains its properties in extreme cold, offering breakthroughs in space exploration and hydrogen technology. 🔧 This alloy showcases a unique shape memory effect at temperatures as low as -328 °…

Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved a decades-old theory and upended our understanding of superheating.

Neanderthal genes may explain why some people have Chiari malformation type I, a condition in which the brain bulges out of the back of the skull.

A bizarre reptile once scurried through the Triassic treetops with an extravagant crest on its back, one made from neither scale, nor bone, nor feather.

The PS5’s system update brings forth new changes to the console’s power consumption and controller.

Senegal Visit Reveals Real NASA Management Structure

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time.

Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

Beneath two kilometers of ice, scientists have uncovered a 34-million-year-old landscape frozen in time. Hidden in Antarctica, this ancient world was once teeming with rivers and forests—long before glaciers took over.

Even scarier? We don’t even know exactly how massive the Shapley Supercluster is.

New research from Rockefeller University reveals how both genes and body size influence whether an ant becomes a queen or a worker.