The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

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Horse expert Chad Hanson combines stunning imagery with insights from the science of awe and wonder to shed light on the ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder ...

These are scientific questions, and the artist has worked closely with zoologists, marine biologists and astronomers doing ...

Numerous events and policy decisions across the world in the last several months are causing despair among many ...

Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...

The NIH, which is the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, did not respond to Nature’s queries about the grant terminations, their legality or how many the agency anticipated ...

Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the same region dating back 1.5 million years. It's the oldest collection of mass-produced bone tools yet known, ...

Rising temperatures could reduce trees' ability to photosynthesize. Scientists are trying to figure out just how close we are to that point.

Mycorrhizal fungi build vast networks in the soil to exchange nutrients with the roots of plants. Much of these dense networks consist of extremely fine tubes called hyphae, which can reach ...