Could Invincible Season 4 finally bring us a glimpse of this mysterious weapon that is strong enough to nearly wipe out the ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, only a ...

Data suggest people lived at Chile’s Monte Verde site thousands of years later than thought, challenging key “pre-Clovis” evidence. Not all agree.

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Yet even though overpopulation is an issue as dated as Dacron pants or disco, Ehrlich helped give an imprimatur of scholarly authority to a new kind of politics—a politics of scarcity—that has proved ...

The Viltrumite Empire appears frightening on the outside. They are conquering every planet they come across. One Viltrumite ...

Project Hail Mary reminds us how important our world is – and how vital science is to our continued existence on it.

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years ...

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate ...

Filmmaker Andrew Stanton talks about In the Blink of an Eye, why it took 14 years to make his second live-action feature, and Toy Story 5.

Most people with non-African ancestry carry a small amount of Neanderthal DNA scattered across their genomes. But there’s a long-standing mystery: the X chromosome is strangely empty of it. For years, ...