Over the last century of cinematic sci-fi, movies like Planet of the Apes and The Thing have produced some of the most ...

A variety of studies are showing that rough-and-tumble play is important for animals and kids alike.

Engineers have turned one of nature’s most reviled body parts into a precision tool, using the hollow feeding tubes of dead ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...