Learn how three new toad species from Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains evolved to skip the tadpole stage — revealing one of nature’s rarest reproductive strategies.

Learn how rainy and cold weather may be linked with joint pain, impacting those with arthritis or other musculoskeletal ...

Detected in three drug samples during community checks, the little-known opioid cychlorphine may be as potent as fentanyl, ...

Prehistoric trees like Ginkgo and monkey-puzzles still have close relatives that go back at least to the time of the dinosaurs.

Learn more about the discovery of the electron and why J.J. Thomson often gets the credit.

Learn how super recognizers don’t memorize extra details but instinctively focus on the most telling facial features, a skill ...

Learn more about the “Marree Man,” a gigantic geoglyph carved into the Australian outback whose creator still remains a ...

Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history.

The world’s smallest neural implant is powered and connected entirely by light, opening new possibilities for long-term brain monitoring.

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...

A 14th-century teenager died from the Black Death in Edinburgh. Learn how researchers discovered the pathogen in his teeth, ...

Learn how chemists were studying a known antibiotic when they discovered a molecule 100 times more potent at defeating ...