A 5,500-year-old skeleton has yielded the oldest known genome of the bacterium behind syphilis, revealing a lineage unlike ...

Scientists discover a 21-million-year-old dwarf sea cow that grazed in the Arabian Gulf, revealing how it transformed marine ...

Lemon juice helps reduce blood sugar spikes by 30% in a matter of minutes, according to a new European scientific study.

Seabird poop played a key role in Chincha Kingdom agriculture, fueling economic growth and political influence in ancient ...

CFC substitutes release 335,500 tons of an eternal chemical called TFA that already contaminates rain, ice, and global water.

A mathematical trick speeds up seismic calculations for earthquake simulations and could revolutionize earthquake preparedness.

Scientists have found that most biochar fed to cattle survives digestion and returns in manure, where it may help store ...

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

A physicist proposes that the universe is not empty space, but is a viscous fluid, fueling the expansion and contraction we see.

Wildfires in Arctic Alaska now outrun anything the region has seen in the last 3,000 years, according to a new reconstruction built from modern satellite records.

A mega-drought 1,000 years ago drove Polynesians to explore the Pacific and change their historical destiny forever.

Public works in Scotland reveal Iron Age settlement and medieval tombs hidden for centuries beneath ancient soil.