A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the ...

Science isn’t just about textbooks and laboratories—it’s an engaging journey of discovery that can lead you to the farthest ...

The spacecraft offers insights into planetary habitability and atmospheric evolution that are essential for future ...

In our modern society, aging tends to be something we ignore, and then try to avoid. Mainstream culture is geared toward the ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

We must resist the temptation to reinterpret the Bayh-Dole Act even in an effort to improve the affordability of and access ...

Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Since 1988, twelve identical populations of E. coli have been evolving in the same lab — over 75,000 generations and counting ...

Long ago, some saltwater fish adapted to freshwater — and in doing so, developed an extraordinary sense of hearing rivaling ...

UCSB Anthropologist Michael Gurven will present a talk and and signing of his book “Seven Decades: How we Evolved to Live Longer," 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6 ...

Researchers are deliberately setting off real (small) earthquakes to understand how to gauge the danger of a fault line ...