"Neandertals knew that for a specific task, they needed a very particular tool. They found what worked best and sought it out when it was available."

Mandates to give workers paid sick leave in a recent congressional bill could be helping to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say.

Fossils from Spinosaurus aegyptiacus may be "smoking gun" evidence it lived in the water. That could upend the idea that there were no swimming dinosaurs.

Researchers have discovered the brightest supernova ever seen, dubbing it the "queen of supernovas," It's twice as bright as a regular supernova.

Charity appeals that focus on donor emotions work better than that focus on the desire to help, research finds.

Knowing how laser beams interact in a plasma—a hot soup of free moving electrons and ions—will boost the accuracy of computer models used in simulations of laser-driven implosions.

"When a group is seen as taking control of a historically disparaging term, it can indeed neutralize the insulting content of the term,"

Infections during pregnancy are a risk factor for offspring developing disorders like schizophrenia and autism. Now researchers have figured out why.

Gas from the upper reaches of the protoplanetary disk flows in to fill gaps that forming planets create near nearly formed stars, research finds.

A new "biosignature" for our own planet may help astronomers find exoplanets that could support life—or other worlds that already do.