Ancient footprints preserved along the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana are reshaping scientists' understanding of one of ...

Deep inside the human brain, a small gland in the middle of the forehead helps keep time. As darkness arrives, the pineal ...

Overview of the excavated track surface with a mix of deeper hippopotamus and antelope footprints and shallower hominin tracks visible. Kay Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian. Ancient footprints preserved ...

An eye implant and a pair of high-tech glasses that enable people with a severe form of vision loss to read have been ...

Far from the smartphone-powered megacities with their gleaming skyscrapers and futuristic electric vehicles, lies another ...

Researchers say a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago may have shaped the evolution of every vertebrate eye, including our own. They also found that its ancient median eye ...

Think of a small fossil as the equivalent of a homemade video of prehistoric life. Fossils formed when sea organisms began ...

Today, people speak or sign around 7,500 languages. Yet this figure provides only a snapshot of a constantly changing history. How many languages existed before written records? Did agriculture reduce ...

More than a century after the blues first emerged from the American South, the genre continues to evolve without losing sight ...

Binary star system supernova science just hit a milestone: a Stanford-led team using 16 years of NASA Fermi data confirmed ...