STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Professor Renée M. Clary is the 2025 recipient of the Geological Society of America’s ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Scientists are investigating how Adélie penguin colonies along the coast of Antarctica’s Ross Sea have adapted over the last 6,000 years. Jamie Wood Penguin poop is stinky but useful. In Antarctica, ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...

Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a five-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang delivering a keynote at GTC 2025. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Naming chips after prominent scientists has been a decades-long tradition at Nvidia. Following its upcoming ...

Researchers believe a new signal may finally reveal how dark matter behaves.

The research team worked for almost 20 years building expertise. Scientists make major breakthrough in effort to build limitless energy device: 'The first in human history' first appeared on The Cool ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.