A revised age for a German site indicates that our evolutionary cousins organized horse ambushes around 200,000 years ago.

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

Some stinky plants independently evolved an enzyme to take the same molecule behind our bad breath and turn it into the smell of rotting flesh.

Between the end of February and early April, the federal government terminated almost 700 NIH grants equaling $1.81 billion. That’s about 3.3 percent of the NIH’s total operating budget, the ...

The drug varenicline, paired with counseling and text messaging support, helped teens and young adults abstain from vaping in a clinical trial.

A new study is among the first to look at whether cold or hot soaks help women’s muscles rebound from extreme exercise.

Hundreds of millions of years before oxygen surged in the atmosphere 2.4 billion years ago, swaths of oxygen winked in and out of existence in the ocean.

Rosettes made by scraping Tête de Moine, or “monk’s head,” cheese result from variations in the friction between the blade and the cheese.

An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.

Senior writer Tina Hesman Saey is a geneticist-turned-science writer who covers all things microscopic and a few too big to be viewed under a microscope. She is an honors graduate ...

An initial clinical trial in Kenya found no safety concerns, a first step toward testing unithiol as a treatment for venomous snakebites in people.

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.