Researchers unveil the inner mechanisms of the most intricate and complex molecular machine in human biology. Scientists at ...

Americans are experiencing a “trust recession,” social scientist Jamil Zaki says in his new book “Hope for Cynics.” But ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

Why is human culture -; the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations -; so much more powerful than animal cultures?

The show represented the kind of material he's drawn to, Tuck said: "Projects where the conversations revolve around character and revolve around human beings and connection, because otherwise we're ...

The rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the ...

Complicated births may not have arisen in humans as a trade-off between our need for big brains and pelvises suitable for ...

A mysterious electromagnetic mechanism may be more important than the firing of neurons in our brains to explain our ...

On what would've been the astronomer's 90th trip around the sun, here's a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and ...

Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA ...

Researchers recreated the face of a 17th century woman buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe, ...