Our ancient four-legged ancestors didn't have an amphibian-like life cycle when they began walking on land, according to a new study of rare fossils found near…

Last week, more than 260 researchers convened in Milan to discuss the opportunities, challenges and... The post Experts: Why carbon removal needs a ‘major scal…

This week, I covered the story of Casey Harrell—a man with ALS who is “the first power user” of a brain implant, according to the researchers who worked with h…

Ticks can cause serious diseases, but the tools for controlling them lag decades behind mosquitoes. In the northeast, health officials and researchers hope tha…

Researchers have created a new way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of complex plant genomes by analyzing genetic traces left by transposable elements. …

Researchers at the National Graphene Institute, in collaboration with the National University of Singapore, have shown that the magnetic behavior of electrons …

Researchers at Paradigm Shift have published the technical details of usbliter8, a new unpatchable iPhone BootROM vulnerability that enables arbitrary code exe…

Genes inherited from the now-extinct Denisovans are actively playing a role in the immune system of some people from Oceania.

Japan’s 2011 earthquake was so powerful that it shifted the entire country’s location This “extraordinary” event was likely caused by seismic waves bouncing o…

A team of LSU researchers has pinpointed a specific type of lung cell that acts as a master switch for the harmful inflammation caused by a dangerous class of …

A new study suggests Southern California's major fault system is more stressed than at any point in the last 1,000 years. Researchers found that the Cajon Pass…