British chef Mike Keen will ski across Greenland eating only fermented seal. Researchers will study how the Inuit diet shapes ...

A Biography lifts the curtain on the private life of Charles Darwin, one of science’s most controversial pioneers.

A study of 50 crab species in Japan traces the iconic sideways walk to a single ancestor, suggesting the trait drove the ...

Downing a few cups of caffeinated coffee or mugs of tea each day may lower the risk of developing dementia, according to a long-term study. The lowest risk was tied to drinking around two to three ...

Water droplets on soap films orbited and merged like colliding galaxies, a technique that could help scientists study the ...

As public health officials around the world monitor dozens of former passengers and crewmembers of the MV Hondius for signs ...

Technologies, including chatbots, promise to make life easier. But removing the friction, or effort involved in thinking, has ...

For nearly a decade, Vincent Bombail has been tickling rats. It’s been a standard technique used in the study of animal ...

A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

At some 60 billion times the mass of the sun, this dark void could be home to a pair of black holes that are due for a cosmic ...

Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...