By scanning the brains of mice throughout their lifespans, scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and the University of Texas at Dallas have discovered that the human brain is not unique in how ...
A new study challenges the age of a site in Chile, called Monte Verde, that's crucial to our understanding of how people got ...
By sequencing ancient DNA from the fetus, scientists revealed a severe genetic bottleneck that reshaped Neanderthal history ...
Scientists in the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life, who conduct aerial surveys to collect data on ...
For more than a century, common wisdom held that the original forest of the Adirondacks was largely erased. A new wave of ...
Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs is kind of like a fairy-tale quest. And it takes a lot of time and patience.
Researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest known cave art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia. The unusual, ...
The planet’s northern forests hold enormous amounts of carbon in spruce, pine, and thick, needle-rich soils. But a major new ...
The brain and the microbiome are in constant communication and maintaining that connection as we age could be key to avoiding ...
A jury trial is scheduled for later this spring in the case of a University of South Carolina scientist snared in a law ...
The Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile, discovered in the 1970s, revolutionized the thinking about when humans entered ...
The wooden coffin washed off a Polish cliff in 1899. What was inside has puzzled scientists ever since — until now.