Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

As Steven Spielberg’s classic celebrates its 50th anniversary, Olivia Petter examines the impact its villainous 25-foot great ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

The study questions the long-held belief that northern Africa became arid around 3 million years ago, which coincides with ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Scientists have discovered 20 new bat viruses in China, including strains related to Nipah and Hendra, raising global health ...

Nearly a decade earlier, Answers in Genesis opened a Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg, Kentucky, where exhibits similarly ...

The author of The Emperor of Gladness on his relationship to ideas of success, the anxiety of newness, and how literary ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The CDFW and California State Parks described the bear as a "danger to public safety" in the south Lake Tahoe area.