A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

Called Olbers’ paradox, the seemingly simple mystery of the sky’s darkness is something that stumped astronomers for ...

Voters supported abortion rights measures while electing antiabortion candidates in the 2024 election. The split reflects a ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House could embolden Republicans who want to weaken or repeal the Affordable Care Act, but implementing such sweeping changes would still require ...

This Black physicist’s work on the Manhattan Project inspired a County in Florida two generations after her death ...

Mathematicians explore ideas by proposing conjectures and proving them with theorems. For centuries, they built these proofs line by careful line, and most math researchers still work like that today.

Female chimps who migrate to new social groups bring skills and technology with them, helping to drive development of ...

Samples from the far side of the moon gathered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission record eons of tumultuous lunar history ...

Tracy L. Kivell is director of the department of human origins at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Despite investigative genetic genealogy revolutionizing cold case investigations, it has been underused to free the wrongly ...

Every Atlantic hurricane that formed this year had higher wind speeds because of climate change. Two likely would have ...