One of the wonderful things about science is that we’re always discovering new things that not only expand our knowledge, but ...
Studying preserved footprints in New Mexico continues to provide insight into the first human movements in North America. A research team believes the footprints are more than 23,000 years old ...
The face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman was reconstructed by a team of scientists in England — revealing that the extinct race likely looked more like humans than researchers previously ...
An ancient skull is baffling scientists because it looks unlike any known human ancestor. The mystery 300,000-year-old skull of a child about 12 or 13 years old was first uncovered in Hualongdong ...
While most of the team’s new finds are located in the main asteroid belt, about 100 are near-Earth asteroids that pass close to our planet’s orbit Aaron Boorstein Staff Contributor An angled ...
Scientists unveil the face of Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal woman from 75,000 years ago, through meticulous reconstruction of her crushed skull found in Iraqi Kurdistan's Shanidar Cave. This ...
Researchers have detected a thick atmosphere around a planet called 55 Cancri e, which is twice as big as Earth and classified as a super Earth. The atmosphere of 55 Cancri e consists of carbon ...
In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer.
About 1.8 million years ago, a boy died. An abcessed tooth suggests an infection may have killed him, although the cause is not certain. His bones were fossilized, and they lay undetected until ...
Scientists have discovered a new type of cell in the liver that plays a critical role in repairing damage. These "leader cells" are responsible for dragging healthy tissue into wounds as they heal ...
One of the wonderful things about science is that we’re always discovering new things that not only expand our knowledge, but also change things we’d taken as a given for many years.