Archaeologists have discovered a 42,000-year-old yellow ochre stick in Crimea and Ukraine, suggesting Neanderthals possessed artistic capabilities. Th ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a global milestone for biodiversity ...

November's Sky Above episode features a supermoon, meteor shower, and interstellar comet, with experts discussing these ...

Constant change fuels burnout at work. Understanding how curiosity and the brain’s chemistry interact can help people adapt ...

For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...

Many of them — including a duck-billed dinosaur mummy discovered in 1908 — hail from an area in eastern Wyoming. In the new study, scientists returned to this so-called mummy zone and found new ...

A new specimen of one of the most controversial species of dinosaur has the potential to overturn decades of research on the ...

A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

A long-standing dinosaur mystery has finally been solved, revealing surprising details about a small predator that once lived in the shadow of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex.

Fringe-lipped bats from Panama hunt like miniature lions, using a “hang-and-wait” strategy to capture large, energy-rich prey. High-tech biologging revealed they spend most of their time conserving ...

New research led by the University of Minnesota Medical School demonstrates that molecules acting as "molecular bumpers" and "molecular glues" can rewire G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling, ...