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

The board that accredits medical schools is poised to take away requirements that doctors learn about factors, such as income ...

Our solar system may have hosted up to six giant planets in its first hundred million years, a new study suggests. The findings paint a more crowded picture of the early outer solar system than ...

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

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

A June update by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts suggests that the coming weather event will be the ...

A rare meteorite found in the Sahara Desert may be evidence of a long-lost "protoplanet" that formed in the early solar ...

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

Northern lights are projected across the Northern U.S. and Europe tonight as Earth gets hit by a strong solar eruption.

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

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

Radio astronomers have decoded a peculiar repeating radio signal from deep space, tracing it to a vampiric binary star system ...