New evidence from Wonderwerk Cave suggests early humans were handling fire far earlier than once believed, deep inside a ...

Japan's researchers built a self-regulating artificial photosynthesis device that turns water and CO2 into liquid fuel as sunlight shifts throughout the day.

A dying star may not become a black hole after all. New math hints at a hidden cosmic birth inside collapse, and the ending ...

A global review finds that water-in-diesel emulsion can slash NOx and soot at the same time, offering a cheaper path to cleaner diesel engines.

Fossils smaller than a fingertip are reshaping what scientists thought they knew about how primate relatives spread after the asteroid impact.

A giant crocodile once ruled Lucy’s world, lurking in ancient Ethiopian waters with jaws powerful enough to turn early human ...

A slow, eastward-moving current of hot rock deep within Earth may be the primary force feeding Yellowstone’s volcanic system, according to a study published in Science on April 9, 2026. Researchers at ...

Seven hundred meters beneath the floor of the southern North Sea, drillers working an oil exploration well once pulled up rock fragments that nobody thought to examine closely. Decades later, those ...

A silent prion signal in symptom-free primates is forcing scientists to rethink what “healthy” can hide in chronic wasting ...

On April 20, 2023, fishermen working off Spain’s eastern Mediterranean coast pulled up something they were not expecting: a juvenile great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), about 210 cm long and ...

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...