The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...

His fossils, collected over a decade at a Jurassic site in New South Wales, have revealed a new species of non-biting midge.

“It’s probably the most complete human fossil ever discovered,” Costantino Buzi of the University of Perugia told New ...

Urban raccoons are developing significantly shorter snouts than their rural cousins. This suggests that raccoons are entering ...

Even newer “minimally invasive” ideas, like stent-mounted electrodes deployed through blood vessels, still require a catheter ...

Narwhals, one of the shyest and most sensitive whale species on Earth, keep slamming into it. At one site, it’s happening ...

For more than a century, we’ve treated the brain like a bustling high-rise office. The neurons act as the high-powered ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down.

A new analysis of old Cassini data has also verified past detections of complex organics in Saturn’s E ring, strengthening ...

In contrast, super-recognisers naturally excel at recognising faces. Studies also show they may be better than most of us ...

On a hilltop in east-central Poland, archaeologists have found an unusual Iron Age tool: an iron scalpel, likely once ...

This summer’s release was the latest step in a years-long effort that began in 2012. Over the past decade, the Columbus Zoo ...