In the early 20th century, it was discovered there was a point in the fossil record where most European mammals just…vanished ...

What is the Tully Monster? It might be a vertebrate, or it might not, but scientists have unable to agree for 70 years.

Suppose an alien civilization discovers Earth and decides to investigate. Before it chooses a landing site or considers how ...

Triton is no ordinary moon. With an impossibly young surface and active cryovolcanoes, Neptune’s giant moon has baffled ...

Gut health and muscle health are often thought of as separate concerns. The first brings to mind eating fibre and probiotics, ...

A laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, Russia, has died just days after falling ill ...

Physicists have reported what could be the first incontrovertible evidence of the existence of unusual particle-like objects called anyons, first proposed more than 40 years ago.

Years later, with millions dead, there is still no definitive answer to the origins of COVID-19. Like the Texas Killing ...

Should you ever visit Antarctica, there are two very good reasons to cover your body from head to toe. One – intuitively – is ...

(via NOVA PBS) Space warfare is no longer science fiction. Explore the tech behind it all— from laser "dazzling" systems that ...

This past week, the Supreme Court addressed a case involving a request from two oil companies to drop a lawsuit by two local governments blaming them for climate change damages. The companies are ...

What we know about human history is only a fraction of the full story. Much of the rest is like dark matter, invisible to us.