A new study suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation during the course of their evolution, foreshadowing their eventual extinction. Examination of semicircular ...

The Department of Education has faced opposition since its initial establishment in 1867.

Reich’s latest work has unlocked origins of the Indo-European family of languages. DNA evidence shows that these 'linguistic ...

Scientists explain how treelike structures such as veins and arteries, lungs and leaves fine-tune their physical form to ...

Would dropping every nuke or climate change make our home a barren, sterile world? Probably not, but we're trying ...

Smart bullets are no longer science fiction – they’re real and they’re changing warfare. These high-tech projectiles can adjust their trajectory mid-air to hit moving targets with pinpoint accuracy.

Trillions of microbes live inside us. Many are helpful; others, not so much. Over the last 15 years MIT has played a central ...

The efficient architecture of our joints, which allows our skeletons to be flexible and sturdy, originated among our most ...

The ability of our skeletons to move with both flexibility and stability can be traced back to ancient jawed fish. Scientists studied modern cartilaginous fish, such as sharks and skates, and compared ...

To do that, they focused especially closely on a subset of 45,000 people whose blood samples had been subjected to what is ...