Alpacas have pear-shaped ears and short noses, whereas llamas have longer, banana-shaped ears and lengthier faces. Alpacas ...

Statues of the Mesopotamian demon Pazuzu are often found at archaeological sites, and his cultural relevance is seen in recent comparisons to creepy-looking Labubu dolls.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate whether the most distant star identified in the universe is, ...

Decades of research show that SSRIs can be safely used during pregnancy. Meanwhile, untreated depression during pregnancy is ...

If you consider the Roman Empire to have ended in 476 and count only emperors who were old enough to rule for their entire ...

A prominent Nature study and related research raise the possibility that vaccines may have a broader role in experimental ...

After chemotherapy, some people get "chemo curls" and other changes to their hair texture and appearance. But why?

The bright band of the Milky Way and the faint glow of "zodiacal light" meet above the mountains of Chile's Atacama Desert in ...

Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on ...

When mathematicians revived ignored mathematical structures, they found that overlooked particles, called "neglectons," could ...

Scientists have captured a video showing the implantation of a human embryo for the first time, using a laboratory model of a ...

Meteorite diamonds, which could be 58% harder than ordinary diamonds, have finally been made in the lab. Scientists have ...