A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

Growing evidence reveals that creativity is one of the best-kept secrets for boosting your health. From live theatre to a ...

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

Ancient thinkers struggled to tell facts from falsehoods just like we do – and their strategies are still relevant today.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s essential elements through the galaxy may be incomplete. Starlight pushing on gra ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Researchers studying the human brain shared a lot of fascinating research this year, like how to keep brains young and how to ...