Sometimes, in order to look to the future, it is necessary to take a look at the past. In the field of science, this idea is ...

A New Jersey mother who drowned her two young daughters last year for what she described as “religious purposes” tied to a cleansing of the world was found not guilty by reason of insanity ...

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of the dinosaurs.

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more ...

The fossil find includes at least 19 individuals of the species Buettnererpeton bakeri, which were as large as adult ...

Located in the eastern part of the southern Jordan Valley, Tell Bleibil has been researched by a team of scholars from German ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Now military operatives are in fear that the devices, some of which were found lurking in surrounding ... connect Britain to the rest of the world — some of which are not public, a senior ...

Three months after 7,500 litres of diesel oil seeped into the west coast of Vancouver Island, closures for shellfish ...