The researchers drew on data from 9,632 children aged nine to eleven taking part in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive ...

A round hole in the shoulder blade (scapula) of a Neanderthal whose partial remains were unearthed in a cave in Iraqi ...

The seventh annual report by an international coalition led by Oregon State University scientists says the Earth’s climate ...

Plastics are supposed to be chemically inert. It’s the reason they’re used so frequently to package food, bottle water and ...

Today, our planet is teeming with life, but it has not always looked the same. Long before forests reached skyward, animals ...

Physicists have reported what could be the first incontrovertible evidence of the existence of unusual particle-like objects called anyons, first proposed more than 40 years ago.

We don’t actually know if aliens exist. But if they do, their cells probably have a special type of membrane. And that ...

(via SciShow) Why doesn't gold tarnish? A simple answer might be that it's a so-called "noble metal"—its atoms don't like to ...

From custom part to running robot, the Atlas shop floor is built on precision, rapid assembly, and real-time collaboration.

In the early 20th century, it was discovered there was a point in the fossil record where most European mammals just…vanished ...

Suppose an alien civilization discovers Earth and decides to investigate. Before it chooses a landing site or considers how ...

A laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, Russia, has died just days after falling ill ...