Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came ...

The size of our universe and the bodies within it is incomprehensible to us lowly humans. The sun has a mass that is more ...

A typical morning hair-care routine can expose you to as much immediate nanoparticle pollution as standing in dense highway ...

Have you ever noticed that a natural conversation flows like a dance—pauses, emphases, and turns arriving just in time? A new study has discovered that this isn't just intuition; there is a biological ...

Analyze its chemistry, compare it to known minerals and voilà. But for geologists, this process can be a time-consuming ...

Chasemore Farm stretches across 340 acres of leafy Surrey countryside just outside London. On a warm midsummer day, small ...

Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show off the highly ...

The transition to agriculture in Europe involved the coexistence of hunter-gatherers and early farmers migrating from Anatolia.

For decades, scientists believed animals on islands evolved smaller brains relative to body size to save energy. But most ...

New research, sparked by a 17th-century shipwreck, reveals how centuries of trans-Pacific trade shaped medicine, shipbuilding ...

Researchers are developing strategies to protect people from rising temperatures, focusing on vulnerable groups and clearer climate-health communication.

Five years ago, in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, Black-founded startups had "a moment" when venture capitalists ...