Foreign aid cuts will make the ongoing ‘quiet crisis’ even worse, according to experts. Researchers warn that millions of people worldwide are missing from census and survey data, leaving policymakers ...

An international study using glacier models shows that even stabilizing temperatures at today’s levels would still cause ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that precious metals like gold are leaking from Earth’s core into the mantle, ultimately ...

Study finds that the pace of evolution in organisms differs depending on the type of cells involved. A new study finds that ...

Ocean drifters once thought identical are actually several species. Genetics and ocean modeling uncover unexpected isolation. Bluebottles, also known as Portuguese man o’ war, were long thought to be ...

The Harbin skull confirms Denisovan ancestry and expands their known range using protein and DNA analysis from dental calculus. What did Denisovans look like, despite their known genetic contributions ...

Young mice fed a high-fat diet developed obesity, showed anxiety-like behavior, and had distinct brain signaling and ...

A major study suggests that smoking could be one of the most powerful lifestyle habits affecting how quickly our thinking skills decline with age. The research, led by scientists at University College ...

This stunning Hubble view of spiral galaxy UGC 11397 captures more than graceful arms and glowing stars—it hides a ravenous ...

Two of the universe’s most extreme objects—black holes and neutron stars—can spiral into cosmic collisions that crack crusts, ...

A brilliant new class of cosmic explosions has been uncovered—so powerful they outshine anything scientists have ever seen.

A new seaborgium isotope may unlock the path to discovering even shorter-lived superheavy nuclei through K-isomer states. An ...