A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

Human bones found by a hunter in 2019 have been identified six years later as the remains of a woman who had never been ...

Did humans not originate from Earth? That is a question which has always puzzled scientists. Now, a social media claim has ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

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RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - With the help of Othram ’s advanced DNA testing, remains that were found in Reno in 2023 have been ...

Follow live updates about the suspect accused in the Brown University shooting and an MIT professor's death days later, ...

The shell casings in the Brown University shooting and the shell casings from the murder of Nuno Loureiro in Brookline, Massachusetts, were not fired from the same gun.

An excavation in Italy has unearthed the oldest and first known evidence of father-daughter incest in the archaeological record, a new genetic study reveals. The team found genetic clues of this ...

How life begins remains an unsolved question. One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have ...

When astronomers search for life beyond Earth, they usually start with a familiar question: could a particular exoplanet support biology like ours? Liquid water, mild temperatures, and Earth-like ...