Science

Mammals first appeared on Earth over 200 million years ago, scuttling around alongside the dinosaurs as little mouse-sized creatures. But…

Could a psychedelic drug help the brain recover from mild injuries? New research suggests that psilocybin, the mind-bending ingredient in…

Among the many risks astronauts face during long-haul spaceflight, an extended stay in microgravity is one of the most consequential…

This year’s exceptionally strong El Niño has brought a rare gift to Chile’s Atacama Desert: rain. In one of the…

Cape Cod is known for its lobsters and its growing great white shark population, but now the holiday hotspot has…

The first animals may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions years earlier than their fossils suggest, a new modeling…

This year’s “super” El Nino means the U.S. will likely face a higher risk of stormy weather and flooding, so…

An engineer has utilized AI to break a previously unsolved cipher used by Napoleon Bonaparte to send secret messages to…

Archaeologists have been arguing for more than a century about whether people first entered the American continents before, during or…

An international team has reconstructed the face of a man who lived in what’s now Ecuador more than 3,000 years…