A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...

American citizens (in blue) are evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship on May 10 in Tenerife, part of Spain’s Canary ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...

Male primates may be larger than females partly because of pressure from rival groups, not just competition with males inside ...

Spiders, thank goodness, haven’t evolved assassin drones. But the specialized hunters of the family Archaeidae can kill at a distance. It’s a distance of only a few millimeters. But that’s substantial ...

Around one in 500 women don’t have a functioning womb, needed to carry a pregnancy. This condition, called absolute uterine ...

Human-driven carbon pollution is wreaking havoc on the global climate, from bleaching tropical corals to melting polar ice caps. But the amount of carbon in Earth’s oceans and atmosphere barely ...

Mathematical analysis suggests that melodies and harmonies have become less complex as music evolves and musicians find new ...

At some 60 billion times the mass of the sun, this dark void could be home to a pair of black holes that are due for a cosmic ...

Some rodents in South America carry arenaviruses and hantaviruses. Climate change may bring both to regions where neither is ...

Rather than catching a yawn on sight, muscles squeezing the uterus could be the trigger for a fetus to catch a yawn from its ...