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 ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science ...

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.

An impulse to probe the existential mysteries of life inspired Francis Crick to unlock the structure of DNA, posits ...