The school science fair isn't just about vinegar and baking soda eruptions from papier-mâché volcanoes. One 14-year-old made ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees.

The sheer scale of Earth's plastic problem has been laid bare in a new study, led by researchers from the British Antarctic ...

Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...

By analyzing the brains of 52 dead patients, scientists were able to visualize how microplastics amass inside us ...

Secret Science is a new smart and entertaining seven-part series exploring what it means to be human. Go on an inspired ...

Beall has been studying the human response to hypoxic living conditions for years. In research published in October 2024, she ...

Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with viruses. In most cases, your immune system is able to fight an infection. On ...

Researchers identified the mechanism mice use to overcome instinctive fear, saying it may help research for people with ...

US researchers have examined almost 100 samples from brains and found an unexpectedly high concentration of plastic in them.

Understanding how cells transform into specialized types during human development is a central challenge in biology. This ...