A story circulating on social media this week featured a seemingly made-up scientist who is developing an equally imaginary ...

A viral story raised the idea of using robots outfitted with artificial wombs to incubate human babies from conception to ...

The discovery of a Christian cross proves that eighth-century houses found in the United Arab Emirates were part of a ...

Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil ...

From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes — and they are likely to significantly intensify ...

Astronomers using the James Webb telescope alongside Canada's CHIME telescope have pinpointed the origin of one of the ...

Fossil spore and pollen data reveal our early ancestors evolved in cold, dry environments, with some even colonizing Arctic regions.

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return ...

Researchers said the breakthrough "paves the way for electronics powered by the ambient light already present in our lives." ...

People with Indigenous American ancestry carry Denisovan genes that Neanderthals passed on when they mated with modern humans ...

In coastal Oregon, the state's tallest fir tree is burning. Douglas-firs (Pseudotsuga menziesii) are Oregon's most common ...

Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event ...