The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 and completed in 2003, also moved the needle. Scientists had successfully ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

When science writer Mary Roach lay down inside an iron lung, she hoped to spend a night allowing the mechanical respirator to expand and deflate her lungs - as thousands of polio sufferers did during ...

DEAR ABBY: My son has trouble telling the truth. He was getting up late, dressing for work, leaving and coming back early. When my husband and I asked him about having a job, he said he had one. When ...

When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the piece of history? It’s not as simple as you may think. To discover more about jaw-dropping finds–like the ...

The discovery of a vast telecommunications network that authorities say was capable of wiping out cellular communications in the nation's largest city is just the latest in a steady series of ...

Outside the Westmoreland General Store, a large inflatable ice cream cone used to sit beside Route 12, encouraging drivers to stop for a treat. There’s a brown patch of grass where it was. The cone is ...

HUBEI, China — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.

Yunxian 1 (left) and Yunxian 2 (right) are skulls unearthed in China that had been badly crushed. Scientists digitally reconstructed Yunxian 2 (center) and analyzed its relationship to other early ...

Microplastics have completely permeated Earth's environment and our own bodies, from the top of Mount Everest to the deepest parts of the ocean to even inside our own brains. However, a meta-analysis ...

We know inhaling polluted air harms our lungs—but what about our brains? According to compelling new research, pollution may put you at higher risk of being hospitalized for one of the most common ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous. Dear How to Do It, I am a 60-year-old man. I’ve met a wonderful woman my age who is smart, ...