It may take a while to become as famous as Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, or Monument Valley, but the 12,000-acre Chiricahua ...

Say what you will about Instagram, but the social media platform has undeniably contributed to the furthering of scientific ...

Around 5,250 BCE a series of volcanic activity rocked Japan’s southernmost island, Kyushu. Known as the Kikai-Akahoya eruption, the blast was enormous, notching a seven on the Volcanic Explosivity ...

The cries of babies are not just a nuisance. They are calls for help, honed by evolution to spur an immediate, ingrained response. When a human mother hears her baby crying, her brain elicits a “do-or ...

Weather conditions change second by second, which makes it a particularly dynamic subject for photographers. The violent and capricious nature of climate also makes for a fascinating theme for a photo ...

Replacing 10% of your intake of ultra-processed foods with minimally processed foods is linked with 2% lower incidence of bowel cancer, according to our new analysis of data from more than 460,000 U.S ...

Many years ago, evolutionary psychologist Nick Humphrey met a family in Turkey with eight children who were unable to walk upright. Due to a genetic disease, they could only get around on all fours.

Of all our ancient relatives, the Denisovans might be the most mysterious. While fossils from these archaic hominins were unearthed nearly half a century ago, they were only determined to be a ...

Artificial intelligence is already being used for facial recognition, but how good is it? In lab conditions, it’s extraordinarily precise, correctly identifying people 99 percent of the time. In the ...

One day, our sun will collapse into a superdense object about the size of Earth—a white dwarf. While our sun is an orangish-yellow, the resulting white dwarf will be… white obviously, right? Not ...

The enduring global popularity of tea may represent a humiliating cultural defeat for the United States, but ultimately it’s for the best. That’s because tea contains loads of compounds with ...

Biologists have long debated snake origins. Did they evolve in the sea, underground, or on land, given that today they inhabit all those environments? Now, an exceptionally preserved Cretaceous fossil ...