If asked what proportion of the Solar System’s mass was in the Sun, some people would check a reliable source, while others ...

Limited to a dwindling patch of forest, these late Neanderthals struggled to find a year-round home, and may have spent part ...

Over the last few years, optical atomic clocks have broken record after record in precision timekeeping. Atoms are cooled to ...

August 21, 1986, was not a remarkable day for villagers living near Lake Nyos, in northern Cameroon. They woke up; they ...

It had never been done before on another planet and revealed more than 20 organic molecules that had been trapped in clay for ...

Now, though, the bees are vindicated once again. Not on the fish front – they’re still the Golden State’s buzziest fish, and ...

The clearest historical breakthrough arrived in 2000 when Giorgio Stabile, a professor of the history of science at La ...

Just a few bridges like these could be key to stitching a fragmented forest – and a fragmented species – back together.

Forty years ago, the Chornobyl nuclear power plant exploded in a catastrophic release of radioactive material and debris. The ...

But mRNA vaccines have also received strong pushback – notably, from US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

When you think of a bee drifting lazily through your garden, the words that come to mind might be more related to flowers and ...

While analyzing fecal scrapings from Ancient Roman chamber pots in the southeastern Balkans, researchers have unveiled new ...