Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

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A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

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As I picked up the coins, I noticed I was using different movements to gather everything, and those movements seemed to ...

A 150-million-year-old fossil unearthed in Fujian province has revealed what researchers say is the smallest known ...

Salvinia molesta can double its biomass in 36 hours. It spreads across ponds, lakes and slow-moving waterways in a smothering ...

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Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

USMNT goalkeeper Matt Freese comes from a family of pioneering scientists, including a neurosurgeon father and a grandfather who played in the NFL.

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Researchers have described a new Jurassic bird species, Zhengheornis buyu, discovered in Fujian Province, China. The ...