Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

DexaFit Scottsdale has announced the availability of its DEXA scan service, a recognized method for measuring body ...

Giving a push to science education among girls from disadvantaged groups, Delhi government set up a model astronomy ...

The much anticipated series finale of Netflix's Stranger Things is predicated on wormholes — a concept in physics that often appears in science fiction. So what are wormholes?

Wild axolotls are facing extinction. That’s the bad news. But take heart: Cutie-pie axolotls bred in captivity may be able to ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

Using lunar ice to make rocket fuel could help future lunar settlements sustain themselves and provide a launch pad for ...

What better time to contemplate the conundrum that is zero than the start of a new year? Zero is a fairly new concept in ...

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center turned 60 this year. We're celebrating with six of our favorite stories since ...

In comparison, he writes, the 300,000 years since Homo sapiens evolved is so brief that “in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.” In this special issue on ...

Why someone becomes addicted to a substance has long baffled scientists and philosophers. Now leading researchers are getting the clearest picture yet of how addiction works in the brain and body.

A new study, published today in the journal Science, reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to ...