The result was striking. Kissing almost certainly existed in the ancestor of today’s large apes, which lived somewhere ...

Even the driest desert air carries a little moisture. Not much, of course, but enough that scientists have spent years trying ...

Fifteen years ago, researchers working deep in Uganda's Kibale National Park watched something unsettling unfold. The Ngogo ...

What if the secret to stronger, cavity-proof teeth was hiding in your hair? It sounds wild, but scientists from King's ...

Nobody likes cockroaches. They're the uninvited guests that scatter when the kitchen light flicks on, and somehow, no matter ...

Drag and zoom to explore this new image of the Galactic Plane. Credit: ICRAR In a dazzling leap for cosmic cartography, astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) ...

Some people with depression have tiny changes in their DNA that affect how specific genes are turned on or off. A new study, published in the journal Nature Genetics, looked at these changes in brain ...

The TR-ARPES setup used in the research. Credit: Jeff Prine (OIST) In a dimly lit lab on the subtropical island of Okinawa, Japan, a team of physicists has achieved something no one else has: they’ve ...

Emotions are messy, but the science behind them is starting to make sense. Researchers at NTNU, led by Professor Hermundur Sigmundsson, have spent years exploring what drives people to reach their ...

Graphic illustrating MIT’s new platform for manipulating light on the nanoscale. Thin structures represent patterned chromium sulfide bromide, a layered quantum material with different optical ...

A trail camera photo shows a female gray wolf carrying a young pup from a den site to a new pack “rendezvous” site in early June 2020. The pup is estimated to be between one and two months old. Credit ...

Despite decades of debate, a new international study may have finally cracked the mystery behind gender gaps in mathematics, and it doesn’t point to biology or bias at birth. Instead, the culprit may ...