On the anniversary of Lucy’s discovery, paleoanthropologists reflect on what she means to science, and what she taught us ...

Can you see three trees from your home, school or workplace? Is there tree canopy cover shading at least 30% of the ...

Over the course of his career, study co-author and University of South Florida anthropologist Thomas Pluckhahn realized that ...

Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974. And her fossils are still yielding new insights ...

A watch made for the last queen of France will form part of the Science Museum’s Versailles: Science And Splendour exhibition ...

Scientists and policy experts are concerned about the implications of a second term for Donald Trump on the future of science ...

The mathematics Albert Einstein devised to describe the gravitational workings of the physical Universe in the early 20th ...

Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, for example, offered remarkable insight into human anatomy in his famous anatomical drawings. This art-science formula was further democratized in the 17th and 18th ...

A new study explores this tantalizing idea. The idea of aliens hiding in a parallel universe — though seemingly absurd — is presented as a way to bridge the gap between theoretical physics and the ...

A riveting new documentary series talks with the former youths from a famous Stanford experiment that quickly devolved into ...

Scientists don’t like unpredictability; one thing should follow the other. It goes to show that nature can surprise us.” The lack of giant planets around Vega is not wholly surprising to Bruce ...