Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the ...

China has been staging live-fire military drills around Taiwan featuring aircraft, warships and rocket launches.

As the Cavs navigate this pivotal season, they’re walking a tightrope between two competing visions for the franchise’s ...

The coming year will mark a shift from reactive litigation to proactive strategies as brands and public figures rethink how ...

A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long ...

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The middle ear of mammals, with an eardrum and several small bones, allows us to ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it ...

Mosquitoes have followed humanity to every corner of the world, acquiring a reputation for being one of our least welcome companions. They are carriers of some of the deadliest diseases on the planet, ...

Scientists have overturned a long-standing belief about freshwater fish origins. The discovery affects otophysans, Earth’s largest freshwater fish group. These fish dominate rivers, lakes and streams ...

From structure confirmation to methodology improvements, making complex natural products has driven innovation in organic ...

Dinosaurs may be long extinct, but 2025 made it abundantly clear that they’re anything but settled science. Over the past year, new fossils, reanalyses of famous specimens and the use of increasingly ...