One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

Corn is a colossal grain in the global food and feed chain, with the U.S. producing roughly 30% of the world's supply, or ...

Longevity enthusiasts tell stories of extreme biohacking, post-cryopreservation polyamory and penis injections. Are they onto something?

Chronic time pressure strains mental health, suggesting relief may come from loosening time’s control rather than managing it ...

The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory.

It's the time of sneezing, coughing, hacking and wheezing. Cases of the flu are surging throughout much of the United States as the new year begins. In its latest Influenza Surveillance Report, ...

I think we can all agree… We spend A LOT of time looking at screens in this day and age. Whether it’s for work or play, whether we’re young or old, whether we mean to or not, screens have just ...

A group of ocean bacteria long considered perfectly adapted to life in nutrient-poor waters may be more vulnerable to ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...