Katie Hunt

Researchers investigate why a young girl in 17th century Poland was buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlocked foot.

Solar eclipse viewers often witness a phenomenon known as shadow bands just before and after totality. An upcoming eclipse offers a new chance to study this mystery.

Astronomers have detected a natural sugar found in raspberries in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

New research shows it’s possible to edit the DNA of human embryos with more precision. But scientists warn it’s still not safe.

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted the same animals and both collected shells.

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a breakthrough in synthetic biology.

Scientists have discovered that seismic waves traveling to Earth’s core and back caused almost all of Japan to shift eastward after the 2011 earthquake.

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and determined they were all female.

Bioacousticians are finding animal communication patterns once thought unique to humans — discoveries that challenge ideas about what makes human language special.

Anthropologist and author David Samson examines how the story of human sleep unfolded in his new book, “The Sleepless Ape.”