A new study cultivated four strains of cold-adapted yeasts that had colonized Ötzi's body shortly after his death 5,300 years ...

China just launched its rival to SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket for the first time, reportedly without providing any advance safety warnings. The 236-foot-tall (72 meters) March 12B rocket blasted off at ...

NASA has confirmed that a bright fireball meteor exploded in the sky over New England on Saturday (May 30), releasing the equivalent energy of about 230 tons of TNT and generating a sonic boom heard ...

The Euphrates River fueled the "cradle of civilization," and a new study reveals the waterway was born of two other ancient ...

A genomic study of Greenland sharks, thought to be the longest-lived vertebrates on the planet, is hinting at the secrets to ...

A 2015 astronaut photo shows dark-orange water that appears to bleed across the bright-white floor of a high-altitude salt ...

The Gessel gold hoard is among the largest treasures ever discovered in prehistoric Europe but has only three pieces of ...

A child's 4,000-year-old skull found in Uzbekistan has signs of trepanation, making it the oldest evidence of surgery in ...

Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...

Researchers in Japan have created a device that promises to boost computer processing speeds, without generating massive ...

In the book "Bitter Honey," writer and researcher Jennie Durant explores how industrial agriculture is destroying bees — and ...

A weird 20-legged machine could change how scientists think about the ideal robot form. For decades, roboticists have been ...