Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Endocannabinoids act "like a 'dimmer switch,' fine-tuning neural activity to maintain balance, or homeostasis," Ryan McLaughlin, co-director of the Cannabis Research Center and as ...

The study found that people with synesthesia — a neurological condition in which the senses blend together — don't just ...

Lençóis Maranhenses National Park hosts sand-dune fields that fill up with lagoons every wet season, but the reserve also has ...

Scientists in China have announced the first confirmed sighting of the critically endangered Hainan hare in part of its ...

The last Neanderthals to survive in Europe came from a single lineage that survived the worst period of the ice age, ancient ...

The discovery of an enigmatic ape's 18 million year-old fossils in Egypt hints that the ancestors of all living apes, a group ...

Mӧbius" molecule, where electrons twist freely out of place to make a continuously looping surface. When you purchase through ...

Modular robots are easily expandable, know when they're upside down or stuck, and can march forward across all kinds of ...

Antarctica could warm much faster than its surroundings over the next few decades due to a phenomenon known as polar amplification that is well established in the Arctic.