FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

Fasting can have a powerfully positive effect on health and lifespan — effects that can now be delivered in a supplement.

NASA and ESA’s Hubble and Euclid telescopes provide a new image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, showing detailed structures and previously unused data for updated views of NGC 6543.

Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...

Millions of years ago, England was a much different place than it is today. In the Late Eocene, England was rich with ...

Scientists in Spain investigated which characteristics of crystals may have made them so fascinating to our ancestors.

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

The continued investment in technology signals the big-four bank’s intention to accelerate digital innovation across its ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

From Technicolor musicals to modern Oscar winners, visionary costume designers turned silk, satin and chiffon into cinematic ...