At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

AI supercharges discovery; Nye and Afeyan warn U.S. anti-science cuts threaten health, competitiveness, future today.

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The green and orange structures in this image are hemifusomes, newly discovered organelles that ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

In an interview with Carbon Brief, Santer says the Trump administration is “engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle climate science” ...

Chinese scientists have performed what is thought to be the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver segment into a person with cancer. Surgeons reported that the transplanted section of ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can now differentiate between human-derived and hydrological ...