New research questions whether babies have an inborn moral sense. Infants did not consistently prefer moral individuals.

Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...