A global study finds pesticide harm is rising worldwide, putting insects, ecosystems, and biodiversity goals at risk.

A new study shows a bonobo can track pretend juice and grapes, suggesting apes also have imagination, not only humans.

A global review of more than 6,000 records shows that water pollution now affects nearly half of the world’s waters.

Medieval saints often earned authority not by healing people, but by restoring fields, animals, and land that kept rural ...

New research now shows how dreams during REM sleep help the brain rethink problems and find creative solutions naturally.

New fossil find reveals a miniature dinosaur species once mistaken for a juvenile, offering fresh clues about early plant-eating dinosaurs.

Groundwater hides dense communities of rock-bound microbes that shape water quality and help store carbon below ground.

For years, the oldest widely accepted cave art came from Spain, where mineral crusts dated paintings to more than 64,000 years. That work also relied on uranium decay in crusts, so it offered a ...

Dementia risk rises dramatically in people with CAA, a condition where amyloid builds up in brain blood vessels, even when no stroke occurs.

Honesty survives because exaggeration often leads to worse outcomes later, even when lying seems easy at first.

Archeologists discover a huge ritual cemetery with bonfires and standing stones dating back more than 6,300 years in Western ...

NASA has already set a date for a mission that will study how space radiation affects humans on the surface of the Moon.