Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

Anthropeum is a daily game that uses the Met’s open-access data to showcase underrepresented art and artifacts ...

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...

Some IVF clinics are using AI to perform tasks such as sperm and embryo selection, but some fertility experts question ...

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show ...

NASA is lighting the cosmos in red, white and blue in honor of the 250 t h birthday of the United States—and the show even ...

Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we’re engaged in right now, and scientists think it ...

An ancient human ancestor called Homo floresiensis was likely a scavenger who subsisted on the scraps left behind by the ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

Trying to kill algae with chemicals is a common response when community ponds or other water features go green, but a ...

This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence ...