Have you ever wondered if slugs can smile — or if they even have teeth? How a slug eats is surprisingly complex!

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...

The Third Test of the 2025/26 Ashes Series is up and running in Adelaide as England look to keep their hopes alive. Australia ...

Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins. The contrast is not just cosmetic, it reflects deep differences in growth, ...

The Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary human cousins and for hundreds of thousands of years were much more successful at colonizing Europe than we were. Recent archaeological evidence shows ...

José Lemos receives funding from NIH and Vaxcyte. Jacqueline Abranches receives funding from NIH/NIDCR and Vaxcyte. Between Halloween candy, Thanksgiving pies and holiday cookies, the end of the year ...

A new Netflix documentary, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, produced by rapper 50 Cent, just dropped on the popular streaming service – taking a deep-dive into the rise and dramatic fall of Sean ‘P Diddy’ ...

It was almost 50 years ago on this day in history that the course of music history changed forever during a broadcast on London’s Today show. It was the moment the Sex Pistols appeared on live TV, ...

Duke football will play for the ACC championship — and, potentially, a College Football Playoff berth — after all. The Blue Devils, who have five losses on the season, were sent to the ACC ...

For more than a century, filmmakers worldwide have brought vampires to life on screens big and small across hundreds of interpretations. While cinematic bloodsuckers have ranged from the ...

Anthropologists have spent centuries piecing together the story of human history. For every fascinating detail they unearth, there are others that are rather, uh, unsavory. A new analysis of human ...