Longest lightning, the first AI-generated genomes and biggest black hole smashup were among this year’s top science ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025 ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

The expression “nutty as a fruitcake” was coined in 1935 when Southern bakeries added an excess of nuts to their fruitcakes.

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included the site where a young George Washington stopped a friendly fire incident, the ...

It took more than a century for researchers to prove that Neanderthals were actually quite intelligent and that they ...