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.

A weight-loss app or prepared meals helped people regain less weight after stopping GLP-1 drugs, a trial found.

Coca leaves stuck in the wool of llamas sacrificed at Tambo Viejo, Peru, give the first direct evidence of how the Inka used ...

Melted grains in comet dust from NASA's Stardust mission match no known meteorite and likely formed far from the sun, possibly amid ice.

A low-power violet-blue LED cut 64 strains of Campylobacter, a common food poisoning germ on raw chicken, by at least 99% in lab tests.

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.

Inside the oarfish's dorsal fin, hundreds of rods swivel in full circles. Sections of fin move in opposite directions thus propelling the fish through the water.

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 ...

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

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