A new exhibit in Mystic looks at the often forgotten role that velvet played in the industrial history of New England.

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge whether a cantaloupe is ripe.

Do cats truly love their owners? Cats often confuse people because their behavior looks emotional but follows a quiet logic ...

Blind Mexican cavefish became active in light while surface fish reacted to darkness, revealing how evolution rewired brains.

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

Life in the wild often comes down to survival, and for many species, survival depends on others. A new global study suggests ...

A great name can stick in the minds of drivers for generations, but not every name comes printed on the back of the car, and ...

Long before oceans teemed with life, Earth endured relentless violence. Asteroids slammed into its surface again and again, ...

Scientists believe the first true plants evolved from green algae around 470 million years ago. These early plants lived in ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The BAU is back, baby! And after Criminal Minds: Evolution unmasked The Disciple in Season 18’s eventful finale, Elias Voit (Zach Gilford) headed back to prison to battle ...

Analyzing 1.75-billion-year-old microfossils from ancient Australian seabeds, paleontologists say ancient eukaryotes — the ancestors of every plant, animal and fungus — huddled in oxygenated seafloor ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...