The Arctic is a brutal desert of nutrients. For a nursing mother caribou, the stress is threefold: she is recovering from a ...

On February 13, a New South Wales District Court sentenced 61-year-old Neil Simpson to eight years in jail for attempting to ...

It turns out that mosquitoes have been bugging us for a very, very long time.

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...

Her work has taken her from the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula to the frozen fjords of the Arctic. She's tracked grizzly bears through Banff National Park, witnessed the spawning of rare white ...

Imagine handing the nuclear launch codes to the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence. You’d hope the machine would ...

Strikingly, proteomics testing revealed that most of the children were also female. Only one infant discovered in the grave ...

The science backs up what people always say. Don't go jogging or punch a bag when angry. "You need to calm down" ...

Earlier migrations relied on “green corridors”—temporary windows of perfect weather that allowed people to move through ...

A layer of rock just 520 million years old sat directly on top of ancient rock dating back 1.4 to 1.8 billion years.

One third of the galaxy’s entire stellar output is locked away in just a few dense balls of stars. The rest is just a thin, cold “field” of stars barely clinging to existence. It is, for all intents ...