A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, ...

In 2009, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes ...

Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came ...

At first glance, biology and quantum technology seem incompatible. Living systems operate in warm, noisy environments full of constant motion, while quantum technology typically requires extreme ...

A typical morning hair-care routine can expose you to as much immediate nanoparticle pollution as standing in dense highway ...

Have you ever noticed that a natural conversation flows like a dance—pauses, emphases, and turns arriving just in time? A new study has discovered that this isn't just intuition; there is a biological ...

When aviators face a close brush with death, their harrowing experiences often become stories—told again and again in break ...

Analyze its chemistry, compare it to known minerals and voilà. But for geologists, this process can be a time-consuming ...

Chasemore Farm stretches across 340 acres of leafy Surrey countryside just outside London. On a warm midsummer day, small ...

Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show off the highly ...

The transition to agriculture in Europe involved the coexistence of hunter-gatherers and early farmers migrating from Anatolia.

For decades, scientists believed animals on islands evolved smaller brains relative to body size to save energy. But most ...