If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

A new study of our two closest living relatives finds that, at least in zoos, bonobos may not be more peaceful than ...

Five footprints preserved in beach rock capture a dinosaur's steady walk across mud over 200 million years ago.

Exposure to “forever chemicals” during pregnancy could increase the risk of childhood asthma, according to new research from ...

Hundreds of years ago, lead musket balls tore across European battlefields, littering the ground with toxic materials. Today, a team of scientists in Germany has scavenged a pile of this deeply ...

Hair grows because cells at the root divide and push it upward, like toothpaste squeezed from a tube. At least, this is what what we thought. However, new research claims this explanation is ...

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A 47-year-old woman in Germany had spent more than a decade battling three severe autoimmune diseases at once: autoimmune ...

Brigantine the Mary Celeste, commanded by Benjamin Briggs, found unmanned drifting towards the Strait of Gibraltar in ...

By laying the genetic risk signals over their new cell atlas, the team found the answers. They discovered that preeclampsia ...

The Asiatic cheetah is the world’s most endangered big cat, with about 27 remaining in the wild in Iran. This male, named ...

“We used deep visual neural networks to create numerical descriptions of objects so that we could understand the neurons’ ...