Mammoth genetic diversity throughout the last million years

In Guatemala, painted altar found at Tikal adds new context to mysterious Maya

The world suddenly has a plausible alternative to US treasuries

Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments

Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount, study finds

Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans

Monkeys are best yodellers – new research

Touchlessly moving cells: Biotech automation

Exception to Laws of Thermodynamics

Sound frequencies of stars sing of our galaxy's past and future

Early Earth's first crust composition discovery rewrites geological timeline

Machine learning helps construct an evolutionary timeline of bacteria

Calcium may have unlocked the origins of life's molecular asymmetry

First ancient genomes from the Green Sahara deciphered

'She loves me, she loves me not': Physical forces encouraged evolution of

Global patterns in seed plant distribution over millions of years

New study links lower proportions of certain sleep stages to brain changes

Cuneiforms: New digital tool for translating ancient texts

Biologists discover ancient neurohormone that controls appetite

Earliest Days of Earth's Formation

New species revealed after 25 years of study on 'inside out' fossil

How did the large brain evolve?

Scientists uncover key mechanism in evolution: Whole-genome duplication drives

Chimpanzees act as 'engineers', choosing materials to make tools

Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

Chart of life extended by nearly 1.5B years

Unknown microorganisms used marble and limestone as a habitat

Violent supernovae 'triggered at least two Earth extinctions'

European Space Agency releases new data

When did human language emerge?

Genetic study reveals hidden chapter in human evolution

Feline therapy: Study suggests cats could fill an assistive niche

Fish teeth show how ease of innovation enables rapid evolution

Webb captures first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system

A longer, sleeker super predator: Megalodon's true form

A 62M-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal

Evolution of plant network: 600M years of stress

Amphibians bounce-back from Earth's greatest mass extinction

Prehistoric bone tool 'factory' hints at early development of abstract reasoning

Giant ice bulldozers: How ancient glaciers helped life evolve