Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

For the first time ever, marine biologists have measured how much energy octopuses really need to change color — and it's a ...

How many of the 160 named volcanoes in the U.S. and territories do you know? If you live in Alaska you have a big advantage.

When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars? When ...

Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe. New research may explain how they formed, thanks to primordial "seeds".

Two previously unknown Neolithic stone circles have been found in England, and they may have been part of a "sacred arc," an ...

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, has been scraping users’ scans of the world to build a model that will help robots ...

To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, ...

Aftershock II, a new rocket built by students at the University of Southern California, recently broke a number of ...

The sticky tar helped Neanderthals produce glue to make weapons and tools. The so-called factory — a carefully designed ...

A new study suggests that the DNA some modern Japanese people have inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers may increase BMI.

Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to ...