In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Sri Lanka awoke on the morning of 13 February, 2026, to the quiet passing of Professor Tissa Vitarana at his home in Nawala. With him departs not only a towering figure in science and public life, but ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

It’s no longer the start of a joke. Cool nerds are now chilling in bars, with lectures on science, history, poetry and art.

Imagine the first two lines of Whitney Houston’s mawkish hit “The Greatest Love of All” on a loop for an hour and a half and you’re part way to experiencing Andrew Stanton’s decades-spanning ...

HOUSTON—NASA’s SPHEREx observatory completed the first of four planned all-sky surveys in 102 infrared wavelengths as 2025 neared its end to help answer some key astrophysical questions about the ...

Brown University student Joseph Oduro said he was in a lecture hall leading a review session for an upcoming economics final when a gunman burst through the door and locked eyes with him. "I ...