Tessa Koumoundouros

Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis.

Earth's magnetic field dramatically flipped roughly 41,000 years ago.

Even a boneless, gelatinous sack lacking a dedicated anus and brain needs its beauty sleep, a new study by researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel finds.

From missing dinosaur feathers to fictitious pack-hunting behaviors, many details of the Jurassic Park movie franchise belong firmly in fantasy.

Scientists have used a specially engineered virus to help track the brain changes caused by psilocybin in mice, revealing how the drug could be breaking loops of depressive thinking.

Most of us can relate to feeling uncomfortable when someone scrapes their nails down a chalkboard.

The taming of fire is credited with sparking humanity's evolutionary journey towards our modern levels of intelligence.

A brutal confluence of environmental change and human fishing habits left tens of thousands of adult African penguins off South Africa's coast without enough food to survive, reducing their population by around 95 percent in just eight years, a new study reveals.

Game hunters have found startlingly 'neon blue' flesh inside of wild pigs in California, triggering advisory statements on potential contamination.

A jumble of bones and teeth confirms two species of human ancestor lived side by side over 3.3 million years ago in Ethiopia's Afar Rift.