Humans could learn from chimpanzees and bonobos, who turn to group members for physical comfort during tense moments.

Shigella causes about 450,000 U.S. infections each year. An experimental oral vaccine protected adults in a small human trial ...

Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient North American ancestors. Genetic evidence now backs up what Picuris people — but not ...

A small study suggests emotional fit, not perfect accuracy, may make chatbot versions of dead loved ones feel real.

But a new documentary series tells a different story: one about survivors. Pompeii: Out of Time, hosted by actor Tom ...

Scientists recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls for the first time. Refined, the method could help link prehistoric ...

A new generation of therapies aims to intervene at a recently discovered gap between the disease’s molecular march and its ...

Astronomers found a helium atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet — a good sign for the search for life outside the solar system ...

A Maya calendar formula bears the name Sak Tahn Waax, the first known Classic Maya mathematician-astronomer directly credited ...

In 2021, local journalists reported that the University of Pennsylvania had been keeping human remains from the ...

In sci-fi, AI can navigate the unknowns and — ideally — keep human travelers safe. But it’s not intelligent enough to do that ...

In Spring 2025, we — Lilly Fang, Lester Mackey and our two children — noticed that something odd was happening to our family.