Before now, the earliest evidence of the use of fire by hominids was from the same cave — the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa ...

Iron and hydrogen peroxide trigger cell death via ferroptosis, which cascades killer molecules through the population, ...

Scientists thought angiosperms didn’t use animals to spread seeds until after the Age of Dinosaurs. Fossilized fruits from ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

A fossil that has puzzled scientists for over 150 years is possibly the largest scorpion known to exist. At about one meter ...

Most known for its role in movement, the cerebellum could compensate for flagging mental functions elsewhere in the brain.

At least a dozen animals have been found with the flesh-eating maggots. It could take more than a year to eradicate the ...

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An imaging study found early signs of coronary artery disease in people in Canada breathing air that regulators consider ...

Researchers were unsure whether alpha particles would aid or hinder fusion. Simulations suggest they help, by dampening ...

A newly-described dinosaur, Jian changmaensis, may have glided through northwestern China about 120 million years ago, ...

Vast permafrost beneath the upper slopes of Peru’s tallest volcano could become a regional water source as glaciers in the ...