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In between rising temperatures and human hunters, mammoths and sabretooth tigers stood no chance.
Why build some tech from scratch when nature did all the dirty work for you over millions of years of evolution?
The findings might explain the power of the placebo effect.
Despite having a single visual pigment in their retinas, cephalopods can blend with their multi-coloured surroundings easily fooling both prey and predators.
While the size of Mars' moons is laughable, some scientists believe the Red Planet used to have many more moons.
A team of researchers is revolutionising dental practice.
Antartica's penguins are in trouble.
Who you calling a peabrain?
One of the first science classes children take teaches them about the water cycle on the planet. But how did water get here in the first place?
A truly amazing animal.
The man in question was killed after his car rammed into the side of a tractor trailer which drove across the highway perpendicular to the Model S.
Humans -- tyrants of creators? Two researchers explored this duality by studying both extinct species and those who had evolved as a direct influence of man.
Hawking, the most prestigious physicist today, said air pollution has worsened, and so has global warming. All due to humanity's greed and stupidity, which could be the end of us all.
One amateur inventor turned upside down the design of scissors which had been unchanged for two thousand years.
The specimens discovered by the researchers are one of a kind and, unlike previous amber fossils, the feathers were attached to tissue, too.
Chemists at the Ohio State University developed a paper strip technology that might save countless lives in rural Africa, and elsewhere where patients have poor access to medical services.
A"smell organ" shoots scents instead of musical notes to dazzle an audience.
An open letter to U.S. policy makers signed by 31 leading nonpartisan scientific societies reaffirms the reality of man-made climate change.
Stanford researchers found California's drought-struck Central Valley harbors three times more groundwater than previously thought.
NASA’s Space Launch System will be the most powerful rocket humanity has ever built and 2020 onwards, it should make history as the craft that put man on Mars.
Global warming is greening the planet, but there's only so much CO2 plants can absorb.
We just bought some more time.
Earth's magnetic past wasn't as simple as today.
Oh yeah, chemistry!
Insects are among the best disguise artists in the world, and new findings suggest they always have been.
The island rule is not a myth, but an evolutionary reality.
Imagine what it would be like if cancer was contagious. Well, it is in some species.
It took a year and 30 students to make the fastest accelerating vehicle in the world: the grimsel.
Visitors to the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, home to the largest reptile display in Central Australia, were stunned by the sight of a snake who spun in circles countless times in a ring made from its own skin.
Not only does it look gorgeous, but it also has many remarkable properties that could transform the way artists work.
Can a woman without a lab coat still be a scientist?
Even days after we die, gene expression is still active.
Tesla Motors wants to buy SolarCity for $2.8 billion in stock-to-stock.
It's amazing to see how the bears can sense human patterns and use us. It's actually refreshing for a change.
The secret lies in an ultra-sticky saliva that's 400 times more adhesive than human spit, a new study reveals.
A controversial study that's sure to anger a lot of doctors found many physicians can be influenced to prescribe brand-name medication following free meals offered by the pharmaceutical companies.
There may be a fine line between how baby birds learn to sing and humans learn to speak.
Artificial intelligence is learning in seconds what took humans a lifetime to master.
Sueur and Pelé have seen Japanese macaques washing potatoes, riding deer for transportation, taking hot-spring baths, handling stones, fighting with snowballs and many other things you'd class as "human". They've written a book about these amazing monkeys which will be out soon.
Scientists estimate that 43% of Brits now experience chronic pain or around 28 million people.
What would you if you had the power of invisibility? It's possible in virtual reality. The sensations are as real as they get, though.
Even though you shouldn't care about helping your third cousin from Wisconsin, chances have it you'll do. Now, there's a new game theory model that explains why this happens.
A new study found there are some added benefits to keeping the coffee in the fridge, which not even the best baristas know.
2016 will go in history as the first year carbon emission stay above 400ppm all year round. I don't think anyone's proud about this.
As if finding happiness wasn't complicated enough, we now have a multi-variable equation.
Thousands of light years away, a two-handed molecule might help us unravel the secrets of life.
As they whizzed past ramparts, the holed-bullets whistled, "or more accurately gave off a mechanical buzzing sound eerily reminiscent of an agitated wasp," archeologists said.
Aptly called the "Silent Partner", this device exploits the fundamental physics of pressure sound waves to render snoring mute.
You can only postpone the inevitable.
Nikola, a shameless spinoff, is trying to do for trucks what Tesla Motors did for cars. Do they have what it takes, though?
