To researchers, the animals are hardly predatory villains; most are juveniles figuring out how to hunt. Encounters such as ...

The spacecraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean after a parachute failure, ending a bold experiment in space biology and ...

Unlike cookies, fingerprints can’t be deleted. They aren’t stored locally. They’re inferred, passively, every time your ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a young ant. Insidiously, the fungus orchestrated the ant’s demise. The ant ...

The construction workers weren’t looking for artifacts that morning. They were dredging the Korte Linschoten River—just another day, another load of clay—when a glint of iron caught someone’s eye.

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake. These lines in the mud are now pushing scientists to rethink the origin ...