Researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest known cave art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia. The unusual, claw-like design hints at early symbolic thinking and possibly spiritual beliefs.

From funky smells to crafty colors, orchids have some weird ways of attracting pollinators ...

Quick Take If you share your home with a dog or cat, you also share it with invisible commuters: parasites looking for a warm meal. Fleas and ticks do not need a dirty house to move in. All it takes ...

Around the world, algorithms are increasingly being asked to do something once reserved for human judgment: help decide who should remain free and who should be deprived of liberty. In recent years, ...

Human beings have been growing their own food for thousands of years. This fruit may have been the very first fruit we cultivated for ourselves.

Around 200 million animals are used in lab research around the world each year. Organoids may one day replace them.

As temperatures warm, SC residents face increased mosquito and tick activity. Learn how to protect yourself and your home ...

Amazon mollies don't need a man, and never will. A new study finds they can purge and repair genetic mutations that would otherwise plague a self-cloning species.

Until now, conventional 3D cell cultures have often been either too rigid or too unstable to realistically reproduce the ...

Florida’s growing towns are helping a giant Cuban lizard spread—putting native insects and fragile ecosystems at risk.

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know ...

The idea of humans living on Mars is closer to reality than it’s ever been. On Feb. 13, Elon Musk’s SpaceX ferried an international crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station, another ...