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If you ask a scientist how life appeared on Earth, they will usually begin the story in one of two places: A warm, mineral-rich pool on the surface of our primordial planet.

With age comes wisdom – and, apparently, some rusty plumbing in the old noggin.

A woman shows up at the emergency department feeling breathless and sweaty.

Our understanding of the human brain is experiencing a watershed moment.

A man with severe paralysis, who can no longer move almost any part of his body, can now 'speak' on his own terms, using an experimental brain implant.

Scarlet fever was probably not introduced to the Americas by European colonists, after all.

In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation.

Jane Goodall, the world's most famous primatologist, accomplished an astounding feat in her 91 years of life: She fundamentally changed the world's view of what it means to be human.

Chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) is a debilitating and long-neglected disease that experts typically dismissed as psychosomatic for decades.

The ancestors of the ancient 'hobbits' who once lived on the Indonesian island of Flores were not the only early hominins to cross deep ocean barriers more than a million years ago.

Earth's surface is mostly deep ocean, but a new study reveals just how little we have glimpsed of the floor of our planet's largest ecosystem.

The internet is currently abuzz with talk of dire wolves – an extinct species of prehistoric wolf that used to roam North America and that was famously featured in the HBO fantasy series, Game of Thro...

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a stadium, the drifting structure has opened up a hidden habitat to the elements...

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than initially meets the human eye.

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching back more than a million years.

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100...

Imagine a time machine that could whisk you back to the age of the dinosaurs.

A native New Zealand insect that once mimicked its toxic neighbor has changed color in deforested areas, in a striking example of human-induced evolution.

For decades, we've thought we had a pretty good grasp of Uranus.

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