New evidence from Wonderwerk Cave suggests early humans were handling fire far earlier than once believed, deep inside a ...

New seismic scans and microscopic crystals reveal the hidden force behind Silverpit Crater, and the towering tsunami it ...

A giant crocodile once ruled Lucy’s world, lurking in ancient Ethiopian waters with jaws powerful enough to turn early human ...

Fossils smaller than a fingertip are reshaping what scientists thought they knew about how primate relatives spread after the asteroid impact.

On April 20, 2023, fishermen working off Spain’s eastern Mediterranean coast pulled up something they were not expecting: a juvenile great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), about 210 cm long and ...

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

Japan's researchers built a self-regulating artificial photosynthesis device that turns water and CO2 into liquid fuel as sunlight shifts throughout the day.

Benjamin Santer, an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia (UEA), was one of the first researchers to detect a distinct human “fingerprint” in Earth’s climate system, work that helped ...

A global review finds that water-in-diesel emulsion can slash NOx and soot at the same time, offering a cheaper path to cleaner diesel engines.

Trees planted to protect crops from wind are driving away the migratory and wetland birds that depend on open farmland to survive. Agricultural conservation programs across Europe, North America, and ...

A slow, eastward-moving current of hot rock deep within Earth may be the primary force feeding Yellowstone’s volcanic system, according to a study published in Science on April 9, 2026. Researchers at ...

On a nighttime field survey in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a researcher spotted something on the underside of a leaf that looked exactly like a fungus consuming a spider. It had the pale, elongated growths ...