An international team of researchers has discovered traces of methane in Martian meteorites, a possible clue in the search for life on the Red Planet.

Chimpanzees are capable of metacognition, or thinking about one's own thinking, and can adjust their behaviour accordingly

From ancient Egyptians roasting a dripping cut of beef next to the Great Pyramid of Giza to a Boy Scout learning to build a log cabin fire in his backyard, everyone builds fires with the same general shape. And now we know why.

In the beginning, there were simple chemicals. And they produced amino acids that eventually became the proteins necessary to create single cells.

Brown University researchers have produced new evidence that lunar swirls -- wispy bright regions scattered on the Moon's surface -- were created by several comet collisions over the last 100 million years.

A remote galaxy shining brightly with infrared light equal to more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

Dogs' special relationship to humans may go back 27,000 to 40,000 years, according to genomic analysis of an ancient Taimyr wolf bone reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 21.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota has found a three-way link among antibiotic use in infants, changes in the gut bacteria, and disease later in life.

U.S. residents' exposure to extreme heat could increase four- to six-fold by mid-century, due to both a warming climate and a population that's growing especially fast in the hottest regions of the country, according to new research.

It may be possible to estimate the size of a large crowd based on geographical data from mobile phones and Twitter, according to a new study.

Detecting cocaine in someone is just a finger tap away.

A study presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Dublin shows that high salt intake may delay puberty.

In a new study, published in Nature this week, a research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden presents the discovery of a new microbe that represents a missing link in the evolution of complex life.

Evolutionary biologists and computer scientists have come together to study the evolution of pop music.

Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have confirmed NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft impacted the surface of Mercury, as anticipated, at 3:26 p.m. EDT.

A study tying the aging process to the deterioration of tightly packaged bundles of cellular DNA could lead to methods of preventing and treating age-related diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, as detailed April 30, 2015, in Science.

In just 405 years, since Galileo first chose to point a telescope up rather than forward, humankind has made incredible strides in space

Look at a primate or a Neanderthal skull and compare it with a modern human's. Notice anything missing? We have one feature that

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have shed new light on synesthesia -- the effect of hearing colour, seeing

Researchers at John Hopkins University found that infants have inborn knowledge about the world and when their expectations are defied, they learn best.