British chef Mike Keen will ski across Greenland eating only fermented seal. Researchers will study how the Inuit diet shapes ...

Water droplets on soap films orbited and merged like colliding galaxies, a technique that could help scientists study the ...

For nearly a decade, Vincent Bombail has been tickling rats. It’s been a standard technique used in the study of animal ...

Technologies, including chatbots, promise to make life easier. But removing the friction, or effort involved in thinking, has ...

As public health officials around the world monitor dozens of former passengers and crewmembers of the MV Hondius for signs ...

More than half of rural hospitals and more than one-third of urban hospitals did not offer labor and delivery services in ...

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

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

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

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

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

Stefan Lovgren writes about the environment globally, with a focus on freshwater issues. He is coauthor of Chasing Giants: In Search of the World’s Largest Freshwater Fish.