A study has revealed that despite centuries of violent regime changes, medieval Sicily was a genetic ‘melting pot’, where ...

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening ...

Tim Spector spent 15 years studying nutrition without bias, and what he found upended his own kitchen. He pulled margarine ...

Neanderthals thrived across Europe and the Middle East for hundreds of thousands of years. They occupied vast distances, ranging from Europe through the Altai Mountains in Central Asia. They survived ...

A routine check-up at the dentist ends with bad news: tooth decay has left a large cavity, and the tooth needs a crown. The ...

Contact lenses are a great vision correction option for many, but if one of them gets damaged, there is little to do other ...

West Virginia University researchers are developing new laser-based techniques to observe plasma behavior in unprecedented ...

The question of what non-flying dinosaurs were doing with their feathered wings – and why they originally evolved in the ...

An international team of researchers have discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of north Queensland ...

The biggest jump in body size among our ancestors happened around 2–2.5 million years ago, with the appearance of Homo ...

Cancer is often considered a disease of aging. Older adults are at higher risk because they have had more time to accumulate ...

In 2018 I released Timelapse of the Entire Universe, an experimental video that compressed all of time into a 10 minute scale ...