Science

'Zombie' genes? Research shows some genes come to life in the brain after death

Photosynthesis could be as old as life itself

How humans develop larger brains than other apes

Older than expected: Teeth reveal the origin of the tiger shark

Cephalopods: Older than was thought?

Penguin hemoglobin evolved to meet oxygen demands of diving

Tropical species are moving northward in U.S. as winters warm

Giraffes: The trouble with being tall

Novel coronavirus circulated undetected months before first COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, China

Lightning strikes played a vital role in life's origins on Earth

What happened to Mars's water? It is still trapped there

How hummingbirds hum

Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice

Eye color genetics not so simple, study finds

I ain't afraid of no ghosts: People with mind-blindness not so easily spooked

Birds: Scientists find strongest evidence yet of 'migration gene'

Fast-learning cuttlefish pass the 'marshmallow test'

How fast is the universe expanding? Galaxies provide one answer

Northern Hemisphere summers may last nearly half the year by 2100

Squids: Sophisticated skin

A giant, sizzling planet may be orbiting the star Vega

Research shows we're surprisingly similar to Earth's first animals

Most distant quasar with powerful radio jets discovered

Study reveals how egg cells get so big

Study of coronavirus variants predicts virus evolving to escape current vaccines

Could catnip become the new insect repellent?

Did woolly mammoths overlap with first humans in what is now New England?

Origin of life: The chicken-and-egg problem

The right '5-a-day' mix is 2 fruit and 3 vegetable servings for longer life

Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process

Comet makes a pit stop near Jupiter's asteroids

Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium

Apollo rock samples capture key moments in the Moon's early history

Record-high Arctic freshwater will flow to Labrador Sea, affecting local and global oceans

Quantum systems learn joint computing

Cold gas pipelines feeding early, massive galaxies