Driven by the 1925 Scopes trial and Soviet anti-religious propaganda, Ilya Ivanov attempted to breed a human-chimpanzee hybrid in 1927 to prove evolution.

Simple changes to building shape could reduce hurricane wind pressures by up to 60%, offering a new way to protect low-rise ...

A review argues honey bee colonies are mortal superorganisms, changing how swarming, queen replacement, and survival are understood.

Elephants often rumble in overlapping choruses, and machine learning shows those calls carry clues about what the group is ...

Five freshwater mussel species new to science were identified in Southern rivers. Several are rare and live in only a few ...

Antibodies from recovered COVID-19 patients neutralized the bat coronaviruses best equipped to use the cell receptors of many ...

Picocyanobacteria can clump together and sink, carrying surprising amounts of carbon from surface waters into the deep ocean.

Childhood maltreatment was linked with varied brain differences that changed with age, sex, brain region, and maltreatment ...

Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory shows the changing extent of Arctic sea ice. A vast layer of frozen ...

Climate models may underestimate tiny marine aerosol particles that help clouds form, potentially affecting estimates of ...

They’re trying to figure out how little sleep they can get without hurting how they feel and function the next day. The cutoff most sleep studies use for that is six hours, but a new study suggests a ...

New World blackbirds such as orioles and grackles seem to have reached South America millions of years before the Panama land ...