Brazil has the “world’s richest genetic diversity”, and some of its residents may reap the longevity benefits.

History is full of strange tales of tentacled sea beasts ravaging ships and terrifying sailors on the high seas. It’s easy to ...

This charismatic ball of geology is aptly known as Giant Rock. Covering square meters (5,800 square feet) of ground and ...

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Yet the researchers don’t stop there, and go on to point out that the inner ear structure of some Homo erectus populations ...

The abundance of oxygen inside Jupiter is a major, unsolved problem. For decades, researchers have argued about this value, ...

“Six years into its North American invasion, the elm zigzag sawfly ( Aproceros leucopoda) is making waves – or, more ...

Following the eruption, one team had an idea to help recover from the devastation: send gophers on a day trip.

Only six years after record-breaking summer temperatures caused populations to crash, this could push two species close to ...

S even naturally preserved mummified cheetahs have been discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. The contents of these caves, ...

With this plan foiled by needing space for Lincoln's big old head, Borglum intended instead to place a grand room within the ...

That was the first finding of the study. The second was that the bacteria had acquired mutations while being in microgravity, ...