A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

Population bottlenecks caused by stark population loss due to illness or habitat destruction caused mammals' disease immunity ...

A University of Michigan researcher has discovered an early innovation in the way fish eat. A scientist from the University of Michigan has helped uncover the earliest evidence of a tongue-like biting ...

A new study shows survivor stars can live billions of years longer than normal, carrying chemical fingerprints of their ...

Citizen science has allowed regular citizens to participate in data collection as well as expanded biodiversity monitoring.

It’s as if nature ran the same strange experiment twice and came to the same trippy conclusion.

Physicist Arvind Murugan earns Schmidt Science Polymath award for work at intersection of physics, biology, computation and materials science ...

A species of mushroom has been found producing psilocybin using a completely different pathway to the one used by 'magic' mushrooms, suggesting the psychotropic compound evolved at least twice.

The primary purpose of icafolin-methyl is "to bring back the controls that the farmers had at the beginning with glyphosate," ...

The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the differences run deeper ...

Ever wondered if crocodiles or Komodo dragons are closer to dinosaurs? While both appear prehistoric, science reveals ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.