Scientists in China have announced the first confirmed sighting of the critically endangered Hainan hare in part of its ...

Astronomers have detected small, ruby-like crystals embedded in Martian rocks, which may also hide sapphires created in the ...

A fast-spreading fungal disease has left the newly named Australian "zombie tree" unable to produce flowers, fruit or seeds, ...

Modular robots are easily expandable, know when they're upside down or stuck, and can march forward across all kinds of ...

A suspected space rock, around the size of a cantaloupe, was found in the bedroom of a Houston home after crashing through ...

Antarctica could warm much faster than its surroundings over the next few decades due to a phenomenon known as polar amplification that is well established in the Arctic.

Researchers have captured extraordinary footage of sperm whales randomly headbutting each other, confirming anecdotal reports from mariners and whalers in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Using a new method, physicists found a way to 'catapult' electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second.

Divers investigating a shipwrecked brig once owned by Lord Elgin have discovered an overlooked piece of marble from the ...

Monte Verde, a Paleolithic archaeological site in the mountains of southern Chile, stands as one of the oldest human ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an intact bronze cannonball used at the Battle of the Alamo. They made the discovery one day ...