With less water in the lakes, especially Lake Turkana, it has become easier for the great rift beneath to move.

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...

Researchers scoured previously classified Japanese military maps that accurately represent a lost Silk Road route. These maps detailed the Great Mongolian Road, which included key settlements and ...

The animal kingdom contains a vast array of animals capability of remarkable regenerative abilities, but known are quite as ...

In a new study, scientists analyzed how a biological battle played out between a strain of E. coli and a T7 bacteriophage, ...

James Hyatt, age 4, was rambling around a green field with his dad on a pleasant day one May. Holding his dad’s metal ...

A recent study takes a closer look at what’s happening in the human mind when we really want to believe something.

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

The immune system function declines with age, but a team of MIT researchers may have found a way to rejuvenate it. When older ...

In 2016, his close partner, AI engineer Eugenia Kuyda, rebuilt him as a chatbot, a grief experiment that later evolved into ...

Every generator and power station has two numbers listed on it: starting watts (sometimes called surge or peak watts) and ...

This winter is one for the books. It hasn’t been an easy one to navigate—even for the most rugged of PopMech editors. Here on ...