Kermit Pattison is a journalist and author of Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind. Learn and share the most exciting discoveries, innovations and ideas shaping ...

In some cases, however, brains outlast all other soft tissues and remain intact for hundreds or thousands of years.

Matej Lipar is Adjunct Research Fellow in Curtin University’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and head of the ...

A man scouring Google Earth found a mysterious scar in the Australian outback. And now scientists know what caused it ...

Using teeth-whitening treatments to achieve a brighter smile may be appealing, but experts say overdoing it could cause ...

Lightning strikes in the atmosphere can trigger a rain of high-powered “killer electrons” in low-Earth orbit that form ...

The medication initially known as VX-548 blocks sodium channels in nerves, blocking pain signals before they reach the brain ...

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If we're asking people to exercise, save money, deny themselves some pleasures in the moment so they can do better in the ...

In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars ...

Physicists have described a system that requires an incomputable number to fully understand, another example of the provably ...

Kristin Scott is a professor of management at Clemson University. She studies employee resilience, organizational leadership ...