New research can help us understand how supermassive black holes formed — and why many of them appear to be more massive than ...

Physicists showed that photons can seem to exit a material before entering it, revealing observational evidence of negative ...

This "living fossil" can grow as large as an alligator, has two rows of needle-sharp teeth, and such strong armor that it ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide at the surface of ...

Drinking water triggers a variety of complex biochemical reactions that reward rehydration and help satiate our thirst.

Archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old tomb that belonged to an ancient Egyptian governor's daughter.

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Inside a basilica in Turkey, researchers have unearthed a bone-filled tomb that may have belonged to a Roman gladiator named ...

A new ecological model suggests Neanderthals and modern humans interbred in the Zagros Mountains in what is now Iran before ...

We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern ...

Braving the cold weather required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and to know how to make fire. But did they wear clothes?

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.