An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success story. But the history told ...

Now, researchers from Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and École Polytechnique in France have come up with a clever twist: ...

Centuries-old mummies are unmasked with 3D scans, revealing faces hidden for hundreds of years.

The oldest leech fossil revrites evolution. Leeches are some of the most hated creatures in the world, even though most ...

A study of 26 individuals who stayed at the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica for six months in 2018 reveals that living ...

Jane Goodall’s last message was not about herself. It was about the power of small choices and the promise of young people.

On a damp, mist-laced slope of the eastern Andes, a small creature with reddish-brown fur and a black facial mask peeked from the edge of a pitfall trap. It was August 16, 2018, and biologist Silvia ...

And while the AI industry dreams of moonshots, many communities are hitting the brakes. Some have already moved to ban or ...

The skull reconstruction points to an Asian lineage that includes Homo longi and the mysterious Denisovans. It essentially ...

Cancer. Diabetes. Aging itself. Rapamycin’s potential to treat an array of diseases has been a source of scientific ...

When it comes to habitable places in our solar system, the tiny moons of Saturn don’t seem likely candidates. Yet time and ...

Google DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI research organizations, sent out a subtle warning. In its Frontier Safety ...