The new study involved taking a fresh look at the "Altamura Man," which is an exceptionally well-preserved Neanderthal ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that discovered a spider "megacity" — containing over 111,000 arachnids forming ...

Alcohol can increase your risk of cancer, but it can also prevent some heart attacks. Here's the complicated truth.

This week's science news saw us looking deep into the cosmos and the depths of our oceans. To understand the universe today, we need to look back at its earliest epoch, a period about 13 billion years ...

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere. Mounting research shows that going for a ...

With the pace of climate change speeding up, extreme weather and other impacts are taking an increasing toll on populations and environments across the globe. Here are some of the developments this ye ...

What do fluorescent zebra fish and elite mountain climbers have in common? More than you might think. The Ontario Science Centre’s latest show links CRISPR technology to how humans adapt to high ...

In today’s world, everything is a source of potential health concern — even water. Here’s what you need to know about minimizing microplastic ingestion via drinking water. A liter of bottled water ...

The awards will allow these UT alumni to conduct research or teach English abroad. Miriam Yampuler, Allie Murphy and Thomas Wynn all won Fulbright U.S. Student Awards. Three recent alumni from The ...

Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, but new data shows otherwise. The spacecraft in question was the Shenzhou-20 ...