Researchers say a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago may have shaped the evolution of every vertebrate eye, including our own. They also found that its ancient median eye ...

As part of NPR's 250th anniversary series America in Pursuit, we're taking a look back at one of America's most significant inventions: the telephone.

Billions of birds share the planet with us. With their flamboyant plumage and joyous dawn serenades, many of them are impossible to miss. But how did they get here, how did they break the bounds of ...

Using the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, astronomers are beginning the largest and deepest survey of the sky. What will they ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

Ancient volcanic rocks from Western Australia suggest that water was reaching deep into Earth’s interior more than three ...

At the national laboratory, the first light bulbs lit by nuclear power have given way to supercomputers, quantum research and ...

A 21-year-old Aboriginal man has died at the privately operated Clarence Correctional Centre, sparking fresh scrutiny over ...

Deeply etched into a cliff face in GunaiKurnai Country, near the township of Buchan in East Gippsland in rural Victoria, is a ...

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

In July 1925, a young science teacher named John Scopes was in court, accused of contravening the Butler Act—a Tennessee law ...