At West Virginia University (WVU), Corinne Hazel, an undergraduate major in environmental microbiology, examined morning ...

In the flicker of those ancient fires — built not for feasting, but for vigilance and smoking meat — Homo erectus paved the ...

Chain-of-Zoom sidesteps this limitation by breaking the zooming process into manageable steps. Instead of stretching an image ...

Life on Earth blooms with wild ingenuity. From phosphorescent fungi feeding in the undergrowth to chameleons flicking tongues ...

About 2,000 feet beneath the ocean’s surface, in the dark stillness off the coast of California, a concrete sphere the size ...

Contrary to what we might think, the noise of clapping isn’t just the slap of skin on skin. “It’s the air column pushed by this jet flow of air coming out of the hand cavity that causes the ...

No, modern humans weren’t the first to craft pointed weapons using bones. Neanderthals were already doing it thousands of ...

We all like to think we're exceptional. But statistically, you're probably not; and neither is anyone you know.

The diagnostic pen is designed with mass production in mind. All its parts — from the 3D-printed casing to the replaceable ...

Damien Boschetto found a nearly complete dinosaur skeleton in France -- an extremely rare discovery -- while walking his ...

In the summer of 1831, strange things began to happen in the skies over Europe and North America. The sun shimmered blue and ...