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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

On the International Space Station, a cube holding a diamond-based sensor revealed the potential for quantum magnetometers.

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

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

Public health officials are racing to find out how the sometimes deadly hantavirus got aboard a cruise ship and if there has ...