The remains of at least 37 people in an ancient stone 'jar' in northeastern Laos suggest that thousands similar jars were ...

Found near Australia, Solenostomus snuffleupagus is a shaggy swimmer that closely resembles Mr. Snuffleupagus from Sesame ...

States with abortion bans are trending away from evidence-based miscarriage treatment that includes mifepristone, compared ...

While the thunderstorms in The Legend of Zelda defy physics, plenty of places on Earth experience extreme weather.

Scientists have finally sniffed out the molecules behind marijuana’s skunky aroma. The heady bouquet that wafts off of fresh weed is actually a cocktail of hundreds of fragrant compounds. The most ...

As public health officials around the world monitor dozens of former passengers and crewmembers of the MV Hondius for signs ...

British chef Mike Keen will ski across Greenland eating only fermented seal. Researchers will study how the Inuit diet shapes ...

A Biography lifts the curtain on the private life of Charles Darwin, one of science’s most controversial pioneers.

A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

Technologies, including chatbots, promise to make life easier. But removing the friction, or effort involved in thinking, has ...

Around one in 500 women don’t have a functioning womb, needed to carry a pregnancy. This condition, called absolute uterine ...