People make a lot of gas, and it’s got to come out one end or the other. Understanding those farts and burps could tell us a ...

Humans aren’t the only animals who fart. Take Dakota, an English cocker spaniel. When she was getting older, she could no ...

Earth’s oceans are heating up. But since the 19th century, one patch in the North Atlantic has cooled by about 1 degree ...

Humans could learn from chimpanzees and bonobos. When things get tense, these apes turn to group members for hugs, touches ...

Studying this paradox eventually led scientists to a deeper understanding of cancer biology. A paradox is when a scenario ...

Bite marks on a 2-million-year-old human jaw suggest leopards once hunted people as prey. People likely survived by learning to team up.

Meats were important, too. But throughout human evolution, fruits may have fueled much of the brain growth in our primate ...

While at Brown University in Providence, R.I., oceanographer Lily Dove studied the physics of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean with the help of some unusual, furry assistants: Antarctic seals. “They’re ...

As a food supplement, arginine might one day help cut tumor formation and the proliferation of viruses in the body, mouse ...

Antimatter is made of antiparticles. Think of antiparticles like partners of ordinary particles, but with the opposite properties. Particles and antiparticles have the same mass. But they generally ...