A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

A new nanotechnology treatment reversed Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice by restoring the brain’s natural cleanup system. The specially engineered nanoparticles helped clear toxic amyloid proteins from ...

A mysterious underwater fault near Ecuador has been producing nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every five to six ...

For years, “yo-yo dieting” has been blamed for wrecking metabolism and causing lasting damage, but a major new review says ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new trick used by one of cancer’s most notorious proteins. MYC, already infamous for ...

Rivers around the world are quietly running out of oxygen — and climate change is emerging as the main culprit. A sweeping ...

A long-lost manuscript discovered in Rome has revealed one of the oldest surviving versions of the very first known poem written in English. Hidden for decades and once believed lost, the ...

Exercise may be training your brain just as much as your body. Researchers discovered that certain brain cells stay highly ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that malfunctioning mitochondria — the cell’s energy generators — may directly ...

Astronomers have revealed the sharpest image ever captured of a filament in the cosmic web — the enormous hidden structure ...

A major analysis of brain scans found that people with anxiety disorders have noticeably lower levels of choline, a nutrient ...

A new study suggests microscopic particles from the gut may actively drive inflammation and chronic diseases associated with ...