All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This "climate envelope" partially determines ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

Last month was the hottest January on record, blitzing the previous high and stunning climate scientists who expected cooler ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

We had a particularly great week for new research findings, in my opinion. I mean, stories like a 2% improvement in a ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.