Phil McKenna is a Boston-based reporter for Inside Climate News. Before joining ICN in 2016, he was a freelance writer ...

Every cell in your body has spent its entire existence inside Earth’s magnetic field. We usually think of that field as a ...

In the animal kingdom, fatherhood is oftentimes optional. In mammals, only 5% to 10% of males provide paternal care at all. But evolution has produced some spectacular exceptions: dads that fast for ...

The first Americans, seen here eying mammoths at an ancient lake, descend from the Ancient North Siberians and a group of East Asians, who paired up around 20,000 to 23,000 years ago, genetic studies ...

Fourteen shark teeth have turned up in one of the driest places on Earth. The fossils, recovered from Egypt’s Western Desert, belong to at least five extinct shark species that lived there more than ...

Scrolling through TikTok, you’ve likely seen them: fitness influencers flexing muscles, sharing workout tips, or preparing meals. But behind these seemingly inspirational videos, a new study suggests ...

In a new Virtual Reality experiment, researchers gave two AI assistants the same brain, the same abilities, and the same job. One looked and sounded like a man. The other looked and sounded like a ...

MRI scans showing two brain lesions. The yellow arrow marks a lesion in the lower left temporal lobe surrounded by swelling, ...

Jonathan was already a fully grown tortoise when he arrived on the remote island of St. Helena in 1882. He has since outlived ...

ZME Science. For years, astronomers have wondered whether another huge planet is lurking unseen in the cold darkness beyond ...