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 ...

An ancient "bullet" has been discovered inscribed with what scientists believe is a message for whoever might have been ...

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 ...