Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

In a lab in Japan, scientists sent more than 125,000 gigabytes of data per second across a distance greater than from New ...

“The threat we’re talking about is unprecedented,” said Professor Vaughn Cooper, a microbiologist at the University of ...

Thanks to its airplane-shaped folding, the paper plane is statically stable in the vacuum-like upper reaches of space. It ...

Yet the Scladina multitool is the first known lion bone turned into a tool. It means Neanderthals not only handled lions, but ...

Participants consistently picked the wrong knot, believing the weakest knots were the strongest. And for many among the few ...

Normally, the immune system kicks off an inflammatory response to clean up damaged tissue and fight off infection. After that ...

In a new study published this month in npj Aging, researchers report that psilocybin slowed down key aspects of the aging ...

For decades, above-the-knee amputees have had to live with stiff, uncomfortable prosthetics that felt more like rigid tools ...

In the waters off Madagascar’s northeast coast, archaeologists say they have uncovered the final resting place of a ship ...

The team recovered protein fragments from teeth found at multiple sites across Turkana, ranging in age from 1.5 to 18 million ...

The hominins who lived at Gantangqing lived a heavily plant-based subsistence lifestyle. They had access to meat, and also ...