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A study looking at the brain size of different breeds relative to their skulls reveals how humans have altered the species through artificial selection.

Most of us are familiar with the mammoths in “Ice Age,” but how much do you really know about these creatures? Find out by taking our quiz.

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a glowing sea slug with a huge hood that helps the creature feed like a Venus fly trap.

The discovery suggests the mysterious “King Arthur’s Hall” in England is older than Stonehenge.

Solar maximum is the most active phase of the sun’s roughly 11-year solar cycle, which occurs when our home star’s magnetic field weakens and eventually flips completely. During this explosive peak, dark sunspots cover the solar surface and spit out…

Geologic good fortune, skilled scientific scrutiny and a catchy name turned Lucy into an evolutionary icon.

When combined with Qiskit software tools, the 156-qubit R2 Heron quantum processor can perform 5,000 two-qubit gate operations — double the previous best — meaning it’s ready for complex quantum computations, IBM scientists say.

For the first time, scientists have measured a long-sought global electric field in Earth’s atmosphere. This ambipolar electric field had been predicted to exist decades ago. But it had never been detected — until now. “That’s the big whoop,” says…

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic taxonomy.