The biotech revolution spent decades trying to harness power for medicine. The next chapter is harnessing it for everything ...

The cover of National Geographic’s March issue featured a tractor tire dangling from a thread. Not metaphorically, but literally, because the thread is spider silk — five times stronger than steel but ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. That mismatch is killing some of the ...

AGIBOT today announced the release of Genie Envisioner 2.0, or GE 2-Sim, which it said marked a significant step forward in ...

Having a tail that extends beyond the anal opening is a requirement of membership in the phylum Chordata, where humans and ...

Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, ...

The four-person crew aboard the Orion spacecraft made history Monday when they became the first humans to journey to the moon ...

Most of us think of gossip as a character flaw—petty, mean-spirited, something to be ashamed of. But researchers who study it ...

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests ...

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant, which can weigh up to 6,000 kg. This was Elephas ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...