A late Neanderthal group in Belgium and France stayed genetically healthy, with no inbreeding signs, just before vanishing.

Europe’s record-breaking heat wave was made far more likely by human-driven climate change, with deadly impacts already ...

A 300-million-year-old fish kept its fossilized brain, letting scientists read brain shape from skulls of similar ancient ...

An apple’s most useful part for digestion never gets absorbed. The soluble fiber called pectin travels the full length of the ...

Scientists tested wild animals killed on Brazilian roads and found a harmful fungus, Sporothrix, inside birds, mammals, and ...

A study found plant-based foods contain about twice as many additives as comparable animal products, especially meat and ...

Vitamin K1 from leafy greens was associated with healthier lungs and a reduced risk of COPD over more than a decade of follow ...

Great apes and humans all laugh with a steady, even rhythm, and a new study finds it has barely changed in 15 million years.

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

A cave in Brazil warns that current global warming is progressing twice as fast as it did at the end of the Ice Age.

A vaccine that hits the tick rather than the germ carries one big advantage. Ticks deliver more than Lyme. The same bite can ...

NASA’s ERNEST rover climbs tough terrain, drives faster, and uses AI to prepare for future Moon and Mars missions.