Researchers have precisely dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to 7-10 million years ago using a new ...

While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...

Astronomers have revised the scale of the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall using gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) — the most ...

The economic damage will be severe; every $1 invested in N.I.H. research generates $2.56 in economic activity, according to a ...

Paleontologists have uncovered two 69 million-year-old pterosaur fossils and it is revolutionizing our understanding of these ...

When daily newspapers and mainline Protestant denominations and Elks Lodges fade into irrelevance, when sit-down restaurants ...

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.

As US President Donald Trump takes aim at the Smithsonian Institution for "anti-American ideology", Adam Rutherford examines what the science of genetics has taught us about race. A capsule with ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, and has travelled more than 34 kilometres on the Martian surface. The discovery of carbonate suggests that the atmosphere contained enough carbon ...

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t account for half—until now.

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...