Analysis of an ancient bird feather encased in dinosaur feces may have solved the 66-million-year-old mystery of why modern ...

New research investigates how the physical characteristics of ancient tombs might have affected the senses of the people who ...

This Denisovan radius fills a knowledge gap about these archaic hominins, whose fossils rarely include anything except skulls ...

Beijing University of Technology scientists have improved maneuverability algorithms to conduct cold war in space-style ...

A newly discovered marine microorganism reproduces in a bizarre way reminiscent of the reproductive horror depicted in the ...

Scientists challenge the lizard brain myth, revealing two distinct neural systems that may explain how mammalian brains ...

Australia’s extinct thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was not the powerful predator European settlers had assumed ...

New archaeological discoveries in Ireland could push back the earliest human presence on the island by as much as 5,000 years ...

Scientists have used levitation to transform a tiny magnet into a detector that can sense some of nature’s faintest forces.

The US Army has authorized its first contract for a directed energy weapons system, designed to take down threats with ...

Astronomers monitoring an unusual young neutron star report a stellar surprise after years of apparent silence.

Bacteria grow microscopic electrical wires with remarkable conductivity, revealing a new blueprint for flexible ...