A 100-year study reported out by a top Harvard doctor revealed the single mindset that defines life satisfaction, according ...

The very, very long-lived Greenland sharks were long thought to be practically blind. But a new study finds that they not ...

For decades, scientists have been counting annual growth rings—similar to tree rings—inside fossilized leg bones of ...

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna ...

A staple of Old Master paintings, the pointed finger serves as a gentle cue for where to look. But does the gesture really do the job? A new study published in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, ...

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

Here’s some gut-wrenching news. A troubling complication of colorectal cancer, the third-most common cancer in the US, is showing up in young adults at alarming rates. The American Cancer Society ...

A first-of-its-kind national trial shows that public Montessori preschool students enter kindergarten with stronger reading, ...

A single fingerprint in ancient tar is rewriting the story of one of Scandinavia’s earliest seaborne raids. Researchers have ...

Advanced biomechanical modeling shows that early mammal ancestors likely used an eardrum to hear airborne sounds 250 million ...