This rare example of an Aztec ritual mask was carved from wood over five centuries ago to represent Mictlantecuhtli, the god ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gives the climate event a 63% chance to "rank among the largest El Niño ...

The Atlantic's enigmatic "cold blob" has once again been linked to a weakening of key ocean currents and a devastating ...

In response to the Disneyland outbreak, we ended up passing SB-277 in California and a number of other important vaccination ...

In a first, underwater archaeologists in the Bahamas have discovered three shipwrecks associated with the Golden Age of ...

The Romans were the first to wear clog-style footwear to the baths to protect their feet from the hot floor and to better ...

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in ...

A new analysis of 2,000-year-old skeletons found in northern Scotland has revealed an unusual funeral ritual involving the ...

Researchers say the Arctic Ocean crossed a biological tipping point in 2009, when nitrate levels in the water suddenly ...

JWST found a black hole hiding in a galaxy more than 10 billion light-years away from Earth, and used a cosmic magnifying ...

By taking general relativity into higher dimensions, a trio of physicists has proven that a mathematical pattern of ripples ...

A newly discovered feathered dinosaur with four wing-like limbs may have prowled the lakeside forests of what is now ...