A study of 50 crab species in Japan traces the iconic sideways walk to a single ancestor, suggesting the trait drove the ...

A Biography lifts the curtain on the private life of Charles Darwin, one of science’s most controversial pioneers.

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...