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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

DNA damage from inflammation outpaces the cells’ ability to self-repair. The finding, in human brain cells and mice, could ...

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