LOSING her dad to cancer on Christmas Eve, Farrah Fasold clung to the hope that his dying wish – donating his body to science ...

Astronomers are confronting galaxies that look too big and too old for the early universe, hikers and internet sleuths are ...

LifeTracer is not a universal life detector. Rather, it provides a foundation for interpreting complex organic mixtures. The Bennu findings remind us that life-friendly chemistry may be widespread ...

Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

A year of new treatments, new technologies, new ways to stay safe during disasters and new insights on the mysteries of the ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

In a world driven by data, algorithms, and relentless scientific progress, you’d think we’d have all the answers by now. But ...

The discovery In May 1925 provided fodder for the argument between creationists and evolutionary biologists, but what does ...