This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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The answer is as obvious as it seems – the Earth looks flat when you're standing on it, not cone-shaped. Visual evidence ...

A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

Researchers suspect that dark-eyed juncos living in Los Angeles adapted based on the availability of food scraps tossed by ...

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

Ivermectin's reputation keeps growing as a kind of cure-all, even for cancer — despite evidence it doesn't work.

Insects thrive in incredibly diverse and challenging environments. While we now know that nutrient-sensing pathways, ...

The health condition is quite rare, affecting around 0.6 percent of the global population. In the US, the average penis size ...