Most genes are ancient and shared across species. But a small subset of genes are relative newcomers, spontaneously emerging ...

The cleanup of air pollution in East Asia has accelerated global warming, a new study published today (Monday, 14 July) in ...

While humans can regularly replace certain cells, like those in our blood and gut, we cannot naturally regrow most other parts of the body. For example, when the tiny sensory hair cells in our inner ...

Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO ...

New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more ...

A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone discovery closer to home than anyone ever expected, ...

To the music of conch shell trumpets, a 3,800-year-old citadel of the Caral civilization—one of the oldest in the ...

A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the largest piece of ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

As companies face pressure to increase productivity, many are calling workers back to the office—even though there is limited ...