The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.

Jupiter's fourth-largest moon is a main character in our search for other life-friendly places in our solar system.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer. Available on Birds of the World, the Phylogeny Exp…

Archeologists found a 430,000-year-old tool, and it isn't Rupert Murdoch. The artifact, one of two found at a lake shore in Greece, are the oldest wooden implements ever identified. Described…

Inspired by the unresolved anomalies displayed by the latest interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS (as listed here), I co-authored a new paper with…

For decades, attention went elsewhere. But these ocean “fronts” may be the missing piece in how carbon is taken up.

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up surprises. A new paper reveals the latest: a possible rocky planet slightly larger than Earth, orbiting a sun-like star about 146 light-years …

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Was this a lonely outlier, or was there a whole giant species we’ve missed until now?

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a striking cosmic "question mark."

While it has become a word, laser used to be an acronym: “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”. But there is an even older technology called a maser, which is the sa…

The French found this out the hard way.

Long ago, this was a sprawling lake. Today, the dry basin tells a story of ancient climate shifts, human resilience, and a dramatic landscape shaped by time.

In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles zinged around at light speed, creating a "quark-gluon plasma" that lasted for only a few millionths of a second. The primordial goo then …

Buried beneath Patagonia's soil, a rare dinosaur species has surfaced, and it's one of the most complete ever found.

Deep beneath the waves, something is shifting. Life once drawn to sunken whales and wood is missing, leaving the seafloor strangely untouched.

What if the key to superconductivity has been hiding in plain sight, inside a strange quantum phase we barely understand?

A new theory suggests that dark matter, which makes up most of the universe's mass, might not be invisible, it might be in another dimension.

Two doughnut-shaped surfaces look completely different but share identical measurements. It took 150 years to find them.

Imagine: You lost your car's cargo rack, but didn't notice until you reached your destination.

Buried for 9 million years in Peru’s desert, a giant shark fossil has been unearthed, and what scientists found inside left them speechless.

This study shows that many small RNAs in Capsella rubella pollen originate from maternal tissues. These mobile small RNAs support proper pollen development, revealing that non-cell-autonomous small RNAs are crucial for successful plant reproduction.

Liquid nitrogen can be used safely in food preparation — but one man's stomach burst after he threw back a cocktail that had been cooled with the substance.

Research suggests men require a gender-specific approach to weight loss, fusing camaraderie, fitness targets and group exercise