A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Proposals include shortening length of GCSE exams, a new diagnostic test in maths and English, and expanding RE Curriculum ‘should focus less on exams and more on life skills’ The year-long curriculum ...

Scientists collected up to 40,000-year-old microbes from the Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility in central Alaska and simulated increasingly warmer summers that may penetrate these deep, frozen ...

Phytoplankton are tiny ocean organisms that naturally sequester carbon, like plants on land. That's made them an intriguing target as a climate solution. Here & Now's Sarah McCammon speaks to Matt ...

High-fashion model Stella Maxwell got dressed for Iris van Herpen’s most recent haute couture show in the dark. Around her, flashes of ultra-dim red light—designed to maintain the illusion of ...

The latest Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is here, and there’s a new top category for colleges to strive for: “Opportunity Colleges and Universities.” The latest Carnegie ...

Current genetic sequencing techniques can provide much information about the genetic makeup and activity in a sample, like a piece of tissue or a drop of blood. But they are unable to reveal where ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is far more interconnected than anyone realized. Biologists once thought of ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers baking bread, truck drivers driving that bread to market and grocers selling ...

Scientists have confirmed that one of Earth's most remarkable living beings—a massive forest of quaking aspen trees in Utah known as Pando—is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old, solidifying its place ...

Over the past several years, scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that the cells of various organisms can be repurposed into biological robots, representing stunning advancements in the field of ...