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Males of this ancient human cousin weren’t always bigge...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species in...

Students’ mental health imperiled by $1 billion cuts to...

The Trump administration is cutting $1 billion in grants that support student me...

Genetics might save the rare, elusive saola — if it’s n...

A new genetic study could help saolas survive by enabling better searches throug...

A passing star could fling Earth out of orbit

Simulations show that the star's tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing ...

Personalized gene editing saved a baby, but the tech’s ...

The personalized CRISPR treatment could be the future of gene therapy, but hurdl...

‘Silent’ cells play a surprising role in how brains work

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain,...

Bedbugs may have been one of the first urban pests

Common bedbugs experienced a dramatic jump in population size about 13,000 years...

Humans used whale bones to make tools 20,000 years ago

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that...

The first cicada concert was 47 million years ago

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit could teach us abo...

Readers discuss the biology of sex, plastic in the brai...

It’s a matter of size A January executive order by President Donald Trump design...

Small earthquakes can have a big impact on the movement...

Small and far-off earthquakes can stifle the spread of large motions on some of ...

Flamingos create precise water vortices in a shrimp-hun...

Nashville Zoo flamingos reveal the oddball birds generate many types of vortices...

Trees ‘remember’ times of water abundance and scarcity

Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future o...

Aussie cockatoos use their beaks and claws to turn on w...

Parrots living in Sydney have learned how to turn on water fountains for a drink...

Muons’ magnetism matches theory, easing an enduring phy...

A puzzle over muons’ magnetic properties could have broken the standard model. B...

U.S. moms say their mental health is getting worse

A national survey finds that mothers of children ages 0 to 17 years report menta...