A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language in humans. When put in mice, it changed the way ...

A stunning video from Chile shows a humpback whale briefly scooping a kayaker into its mouth before releasing him unharmed.

Imagine watching a speaker and another person nearby is loudly crunching from a bag of chips. To deal with this, a person ...

Paralympian John McFall has passed all the required medical exams and is now eligible for future travel to the ISS with the ...

How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

In 1974, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a murder mystery with an interesting premise: Could you kill a man with a ...

A hiker exploring the North Carolina wilderness made a grim discovery on January 23, finding a human skull near Burrell ...

Simmons, is a novel by the screenwriter of the 1971 movie of the same name -- the first to be called “folk horror” ...

A search for scrap metal in Texas took a gruesome turn when the searcher discovered a cooler containing what appears to be a ...

A western New York man has been charged with murders of two women, decades apart, whose remains were found on a Buffalo ...

The Ice Age animal will be on display at the Prairie Trails Museum of Wayne County after its preservation is complete.

Additional human remains were located on Feb. 4 with the assistance of anthropology students from Western Carolina University ...