A professor of anthropology explores how early hominids ate prehistoric elephants to survive.

Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.

The first well-observed "civil war" in wild chimpanzees reveals that shifting social ties alone can fracture a group, ...

NASA is gearing up to send astronauts back to the lunar environment for the first time in nearly 55 years. We've broken the ...

A genomic analysis of dozens of ancient Korean skeletons revealed a special "sacrificial caste" of people. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

The "8-real" coin ("real de a ocho" in Spanish and the original pirate "piece of eight") was minted out of silver in the 16th ...

It's a running joke that a cure for type 1 diabetes is only five years away and has been for 50 years, but new stem cell trials and immune drugs hint that we're closer than ever to a functional cure ...

Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an ...

CERN scientists transported antimatter by truck for the first time, enabling ultraprecise studies that could reveal why ...

Future quantum computers will need to be far less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages, ...

Doctors reported a highly unusual case of parasitic fly infection in a woman in Greece. When you purchase through links on ...