A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

To encourage antibiotic innovation, the U.S. is considering major policy changes like the PASTEUR Act. This bipartisan bill ...

Augmented reality-powered smart glasses have seen a muted resurgence lately. Will Google's intervention reinvigorate what feels like a tired concept?

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

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The main reason our noses don't take up space in our vision comes down to a somewhat startling fact: We don't see the world ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.

The Chocolate Hills are a formation made of 1,776 limestone, grass-covered mounds in the Philippines. This landscape is lush ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...