Science

Scientists have uncovered evidence that the DNA of two previously unknown "ghost lineages" of extinct human populations still survives in...

A new study has reignited debate over one of geology's most controversial ideas: that Earth's biggest catastrophes—including mass extinctions, asteroid...

For centuries, the Amazon rainforest has been portrayed as an untouched wilderness with only scattered human settlements before European contact....

More than 80 years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, scientists have identified a previously unknown material created during the...

Scientists have identified an extraordinary new form of contagious cancer in catfish, making it only the fourth naturally occurring transmissible...

A new study proposes that some of Earth's largest geological and biological upheavals may follow a roughly 27-million-year cycle, potentially...

China has announced a major milestone in its pursuit of nuclear fusion by completing and testing what it says is...

A new theoretical study has explored what happens when a single photon interacts with a rapidly moving mirror, producing a...

For more than a century, one of cosmology's biggest paradoxes has remained unresolved: if the second law of thermodynamics says...