For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

Studying how ancient animals lived and why they died out can offer important insight to protecting species today.

“We may never know precisely how life began, but understanding how some of its ingredients take shape is within reach.

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna ...

Scientists have successfully analyzed Charles Darwin's original specimens from his HMS Beagle voyage (1831 to 1836) to the ...

The world's first dataset aimed at improving the quality of English-to-Malayalam machine translation—a long-overlooked ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, ...

Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius for the past three years, meaning Earth is currently on track to breach the ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

In 1993, researchers exploring a cave in southern Italy found a sinkhole leading to a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was a ...

Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the ...