Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

At the Red Bull Tetris World Final, a 40-year-old puzzle game stepped off the screen and into the sky via thousands of drones ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a beautifully preserved face of a 1.5-million-year-old human ...

Mary Kenner invented a sanitary belt with a moisture-proof pocket in the 1920s but faced racial discrimination that blocked ...

Before Spelling Bee, before Wordle and before Connections, there was the crossword. Who invented the first published crossword, and what was it?

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs ...

In eastern China, fossils of dinosaurs called Anchiornis have been discovered with their feathers intact. These specimens, 160 million years old, offer a unique opportunity to study the anatomy ...

IT is said that Christmas has become too commercial—as if in Early Christian times it was just commercial enough—but the real trouble with the holiday, it seems to us, is the discrepancy between the ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

Le Soleil n’est pas réellement jaune. Il émet en réalité un mélange de toutes les couleurs du spectre visible, ce qui le rend blanc lorsqu’on l’observe depuis l’espace. L’atmosphère terrestre est ...