How Radio Astronomy Helps Us See the Invisible Cosmos," astrophysicist Emma Chapman describes the hidden corners of space ...

Even tiny muscles around the ears hint at our evolutionary past. In many mammals, tiny ear muscles allow the outer ear (pinna ...

I didn’t plan to spend my evening spiraling into an existential puddle while reading random facts on the internet. I thought ...

This Set of Fossils Could Be Our Oldest Ancestor Paleogeneticist Qiaomei Fu, of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

Most people would never see a fish parasite and think “jellyfish.” But scientists now know that some of the strangest ...

Dr. Hal Puthoff, former Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program advisor and CIA-funded researcher, made the ...

The question of whether man is alone in the universe isn’t answered just by disproving recent publications about unidentified ...

If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, we may be picturing the wrong kind of encounter. Most of us imagine other beings as ...

Dozens of scientists have banded together to pen scathing research letters to the journal Science about the publication of a study claiming the 14,500-year-old Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...

At the heart of life is an information-rich molecule, DNA, bearing a language-based code that specifies the construction of ...