The Kikai-Akahoya volcanic eruption is one of the most destructive in history: Around 5250 BCE, almost 7,300 years ago, off the southwestern coast of Japan, it spewed massive amounts of magma and ...

Over one hundred years ago, a pioneering thinker changed how we understand space and time.  He told us that they're both ...

In 1870, identifying species was a matter of looking closely at their appearance. If two creatures had the same physical ...

Psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in 'magic mushrooms', is being looked at for treatments for depression and ...

Time travel is a dream shared by pretty much all of us. But the dearth of visitors from the future – and the dismal turnout at the famed time traveler party – is alarming for hopefuls. Still, ...

They could almost have closed their eyes and slipped beyond the boundary between life and death yesterday; so perfect is their preservation.

At least, that's one way of looking at an extraordinary relationship scientists discovered by chance during fieldwork in Ethiopia. Over a series of observations, researchers documented an unusual ...

Being around 115 million years old, this fossil marks the oldest known example of possible dinosaur blood cells – previous finds date back "only" about 80 million years at most.

Of all the strange trappings associated with the near-death experience, none is so familiar as the tunnel into the light.

Over thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most ...

The new study found layers of immune defense are built into the colony, from the hive entrance, to the brood comb, to each ...

Frequent, unintentional, and shorter (30 minutes or less) napping were also found to be associated with higher risks of developing impairment in memory during follow up, the resea ...