Excavations along the Rappahannock River in Virginia have revealed the likely spot of Indigenous villages once described by ...

The "sacrificial complex" contained hundreds of bits of horse bridles and bronze beads, revealing a new aspect of ancient ...

Bleached clay rocks found on the Martian surface suggest that the Red Planet was once home to heavy rainfall and tropical ...

Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

The twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan.

Archaeologists in France have discovered three ancient storage jars brimming with tens of thousands of Roman coins. The ...

In December 1954, Gertrude Elion and colleagues described a new compound they had developed that sent children with leukemia ...

The CDC's vaccine committee has voted to roll back a universal recommendation that newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B ...

The Geminid meteor shower has begun. The Geminids peak overnight on Dec. 13 and 14, when up to 150 "shooting stars" per hour ...

A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in ...

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...

Scientists invented a new experimental system to study how age-related changes in egg cells make them more prone to ...