These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a glimpse at the technical know-how of our early ...

Vaccines can be a crucial conservation tool. But getting shots to wildlife, and developing them in the first place, is tough.

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. But climate change is threatening this hidden ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Scientists have described a novel, yet benign bone-covered growth's characteristics for doctors, so patients don't receive ...

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Walter “Wally” Gilbert is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Chair of the Society of Fellows at ...

Veronika the cow uses a brush as a tool to scratch herself, revealing rare problem-solving skills and expanding what we know ...

On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great ...