Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

Consciousness remains undefined, raising questions about whether awareness can be measured, shared, or even exists beyond the ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

In 1962, French geologist Michel Siffre did something no scientist had seriously attempted before. He voluntarily disappeared ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

"There are incredibly tantalizing samples in the Perseverance rover's cache that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

Massive endeavor including Hopkins researchers and students aims to understand the planet's most biodiverse habitats ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Ballard Partners founder and lead strategist Brian Ballard and his wife, Kathryn, have donated $1 million to Florida State ...