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Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates often have strong biases, and chimpanzees, gorillas, and a few other species ...

Moodus, Connecticut has produced audible earthquake booms since before European contact. Shallow micro-earthquakes reach the surface before losing sound.

In the summer of 1997, NOAA's underwater microphone network -- a Cold War-era array of hydrophones originally built to track Soviet submarines and later repurposed to monitor earthquakes and whale ...

In August 1960, something washed ashore on a remote beach in western Tasmania, about two miles north of the Interview River. It was 20 feet wide, 18 feet long, weighed ...

Mrs. Crouch, a farmer's wife in Bath County, Kentucky, was stirring a kettle of soap on her porch around 11 a.m. on March 3, 1876 when chunks of fresh meat ...

This photo from the early 20th century shows what a hair loss treatment called the Thermocap looked like. This pseudoscientific gem was marketed towards men who were balding. The device ...

These images of flounders come from an early 20th-century study published in 1911 in the Journal of Experimental Zoology by American zoologist Francis Bertody Sumner. Working between research stations in ...

The best time to start keeping track of the saga of Lapis and Lazuli building their nest in a garden birdhouse, laying six eggs, incubating them, hatching them, and feeding ...

A new study from Mass General Brigham, the Broad Trauma Initiative, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found 16 blood biomarkers consistently linked to PTSD -- all already ...

A sweeping new evidence review found that today's top Alzheimer's drugs "probably result in little to no difference" in reducing dementia severity or anything else that matters to patients. Journalists ...