Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

Some fish have bacteria on the brain. Wild and lab-grown members of the salmon family including European rainbow trout, Chinook salmon and Gila trout harbor active microbial communities inside their ...

Scientists have measured the strange quantum phenomenon of entanglement in top quarks, the heaviest fundamental subatomic particles known. It’s the first detection of entanglement between pairs of ...

The two plasma fountains, spanning 23 million light-years, could shape cosmic structures far beyond their home galaxy.

An analysis of tissue samples from nearly 1,200 older adults found that the more insertions individuals had, the younger they died.

Practitioners of Ayurveda — a traditional Indian medicine system — have used the ashwagandha plant for thousands of years. These days, another group is giving the plant a fresh surge of ...

One of the most compelling potential signs of extraterrestrial communication might have an astrophysical explanation. Called the “Wow!” signal, the bright burst of radio waves has defied our ...

With explosive bursts of pollen, male Hypenea macrantha flowers knock some competitors’ deposits off hummingbird beaks before the birds reach females.

Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil’s brain scans before, during and after pregnancy are providing the first view of a mom-to-be’s structural brain changes.

Researchers working in the field of agrivoltaics are studying how to combine solar farming with grazing, crop production or ecological restoration.

In a first, astronomers captured how convective forces power the quick bubbling movement of gas cells on the surface of a distant, massive star.

The Earth’s ambipolar electric field is weak but strong enough to control the shape and evolution of the upper atmosphere.