How deadly is the bird flu? The US has reported its first death from avian influenza, H5N1. Here's what to know about bird ...

New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that people were using red ochre in West Africa during the Middle Stone ...

A recent viral Instagram video shows a saltwater crocodile in Indonesia acting unusually by waving its feet in the air in a way that makes the reptile look like a drowning human ...

A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper.

Are humans or machines better at recognizing speech? A new study shows that in noisy conditions, current automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems achieve remarkable accuracy and sometimes even ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

“The whole point of condensates is to separate biological reactions to help them work efficiently, but now when you have ...

New findings suggest that pet dogs may serve as an overlooked conduit for transferring antibiotic-resistant Salmonella to ...