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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...