The Larsen C ice shelf is the primary focus of an upcoming expedition to Antarctica. But researchers will remain on the look out for wreckage of the historic ship.

Sidelined for decades by the War on Drugs, LSD and other psychedelics are regaining their original reputation as effective therapies for depression and addiction.

Humans didn’t always have genital herpes, so scientists recently pinpointed when and how the transfer happened. Hint: it either involved murder or sex.

Many species, including some of our closest primate relatives, have penis bones. Why don’t we?

Due to climate change, the prospect of nuclear war, and a political disregard for facts, the doomsday clock is now closer to midnight than any time since the 1950s.

Eating meat has been part of the human identity for 2.5 million years, but according to science, what exactly is meat?

The newly sequenced genome of an Alaskan infant who lived just after the last Ice Age provides clues about the ancestry and migrations of early Native Americans.

Nomads migrating into Europe during the Stone Age may have brought the plague, setting the stage for epidemics like the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people.

The first farmers were not only well traveled, but also apparently well loved by the hunter-gatherers that they encountered across Europe.

Genetic analysis of grains found at archeological sites shows that einkorn was domesticated as many as 30,000 years ago and barley as many as 21,000 years ago.

Humans have launched hundreds of spy satellites, but the first ones required a little more creativity.

An embarrassment for the US at the outset of the space race eventually gave way to a period of scientific diplomacy with Soviet researchers.