“I do believe in miracles,” she said, looking down at her baby. “God gave us this gift — the best gift ever.” ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

You can’t just build thicker walls to stop it either because the kind of shielding you’d need would be so heavy and expensive that constructing it on another planet becomes almost impossible. Even a ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

“Many people equate plants with photosynthesis, yet Balanophora illustrates that being a plant does not require being green,” ...

Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights into why miscarriages occur and how they can be prevented.

This article is a summary of Roy Ratcliffe’s recently released book ‘Life on Earth’ (Past, Present and Future)’. Of all the millions of species of life that have existed on earth over billions of ...

Thankfully, we can still turn to our bookshelves — and podcasts — to ground us. We tapped science doyenne Alie Ward, the host of the funny cult favorite “ Ologies” podcast, to share her picks for the ...

Most AI agent projects in the enterprise focus on autonomous automation of established processes - but does the real value lie elsewhere?

Nine months after two cougar kittens were documented in the Upper Peninsula, a new trail camera photo indicates the elusive ...

In recent years I have come to accept the idea that I am in fact little more than a bag of flesh and bones, a fallible body propelled by a fallible brain. This week, The Atlantic launched Being Human, ...