Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Vietnam could belong to one of the world's earliest known victims of homicide.

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New research suggests that a swarm of debris from an exploding comet left its mark by triggering the Younger Dryas, a period of abrupt cooling around 12,000 years ago. The authors ...

While many of us are excited about the prospect of finding life on other planets, there's still also so much about life on ...

Following nearly 30 percent of successful breast cancer treatments, tumors return, claiming 685,000 lives worldwide every ...

Plastic is an essential material in the modern world, but it's also environmentally costly to produce and a major pollutant.

Since mindfulness is something you can practice at home for free, it often sounds like the perfect tonic for stress and ...

From the sands of Mongolia's Gobi Desert emerges a new, exquisitely preserved fossil that could revolutionize our understanding of pachycephalosaurs – those iconic dinosaurs sporting a dome of thick ...

Though the trio fits well inside a one-degree circle in the sky, they're actually a good study in astronomical distance. The Moon is only 385,000 kilometers (1.3 light-seconds) away, while Venus is ...

A higher dose of the weight loss drug semaglutide (better known by its brand name Wegovy) may help people lose up to 25% of their body weight – without the risk of severe side effects.

Whenever astronomers detect something new moving through our region of space, like an interstellar object or an unusual asteroid, somebody somewhere claims it could be an alien interstellar space ...