Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...

NASA uses a vision-language model (VLM) called Claude for the first time to plan two separate drives on Mars for the ...

The Puerto Rican superstar’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, which won Album of the Year at this year's Grammys, spotlights Puerto Rico’s history and struggles, even as Donald Trump dismissed the artist's Super ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

In fact, more people have walked on the Moon than have visited the deepest parts of our oceans. In this world of constant ...

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

The fastest land animal in North America is the American pronghorn, and previously, researchers thought it evolved its speed because of pressure from the now-extinct American cheetah. But recently, ...

One oddity is in how human hierarchies form. In other animals, fighting translates physical strength into dominance. In humans, however, people often happily defer to leaders, even seeking them out.

New Scientist is 60 years old this week, and what better way to celebrate a landmark birthday than to wax lyrical about another time. But we’re not going to hark back to the past. We’re going to gaze ...

There are five potential launch dates available in March for Artemis 2, which will lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center ...