Red ochre burials, ritual markings and myths across cultures show that red repeatedly marks liminal thresholds such as puberty, sacrifice and death; anthropologists argue that the colour functions as ...

Around 200 million animals are used in lab research around the world each year. Organoids may one day replace them.

(at the end of the last Ice Age), the bones could be even older. Archaeologists are rushing to find what they can, as the building of the Maya Train system threatens cenotes and other submerged ...

A newly identified role for the neuronal MPS shows it controls nutrient uptake by acting as a gatekeeper. Its disruption ...

In this short classroom lesson, I use a model skeleton to show students some of the major bones in the human body. We look closely at the skull and teeth, ribs and sternum, the vertebrae that form the ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

This place is what would happen if a natural history museum, a Victorian cabinet of curiosities, and your eccentric aunt’s attic had a baby. And that baby grew up to be absolutely magnificent. Walking ...

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

If someone told you there’s a museum in Brooklyn dedicated entirely to bones, you’d probably assume they were joking or possibly describing a very niche restaurant. The Bone Museum is very real, very ...

A group of scientists and law enforcement officials are pointing to the role moss can play to help solve crimes.

Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa more than 3 million years ago. The species is named Lucy’s hunter, because it ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known genome of the bacterium responsible for syphilis, revealing a previously unknown lineage that existed thousands of years ago in the Americas.