A newly identified dinosaur species has been officially added to the family tree, thanks to fresh analysis of fossils first ...

In the canopies of a South American rainforest, a tiny soldier termite has stunned a team of international scientists with ...

Rutgers neuroscientist Peng Jiang was visiting his hometown of Qianshan, a city in China's Anhui province, when a neighbor came to his parents' house with a story that would stay with him. The man's ...

But now, scientists from the Francis Crick Institute in the UK have made a new discovery that gives hope. A team led by Axel Behrens studied a special type of cell inside pancreatic tumors. These ...

Microplastics can cause more damage to your airways based on their shape, according to a study published in the Environment International journal. Scientists examined how two different microplastic ...

A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It ...

Archaeologists found a pit full of giant dismembered hands near an ancient Egyptian king's palace, hinting that warriors may have offered the king the hands of their defeated enemies as trophies.

When the pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) firm Google DeepMind announced almost two years ago that it had used a deep-learning AI technique to discover 2.2 million new crystalline materials, it ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives, redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for ...