Scientists are speeding up the naming of deep-sea species before they vanish, using new tools to uncover life from below the ...

A cave in northern Greenland shows the Arctic once thawed under mild conditions. Scientists say even small warming can ...

Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

Flooding during a Cascadia region earthquake would alter the topography and ecosystems of the coastal region for years to ...

Scientists found a virus-like living entity in human bodies named "obelisks" - small loops of RNA, each a thousand genetic ...

Physicists propose that tangled cosmic “knots” formed after the Big Bang may explain why our universe is made of matter, not ...

Scientists warn that blocking sunlight using aerosols to cool Earth may cause more harm than good, with unpredictable risks ...

Brain cell signals travel along axons, the thin wire-like extensions of neurons, moving signals along the membrane in a pearl ...

Psychedelics such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, and DMT do something strange to the way the brain experiences time.

For years, headlines have warned that Earth is entering its sixth mass extinction, but a new study suggests these fears may ...

About 250 million years ago, as life was recovering from Earth’s greatest mass extinction, some reptiles began to change ...

Ancient DNA from Napoleon’s soldiers reveals enteric and relapsing fevers - not typhus - as key killers during the army’s ...