Humanity has worked itself into a position where we can detect a single high-energy particle from space and wonder where in ...

In a controversial study published in April last year, researchers described an astonishing phenomenon: a forest of Norway ...

Human-made ivory and stone tools have been found in a 14,000-year-old layer of Alaskan earth, providing evidence of some of ...

After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney transplants: being able to transfer ...

Scientists wondered whether Kanzi had the capacity to play pretend – that is, act like something is real while knowing it's ...

The effects of depression may infiltrate your very bones – and conversely, your bones may send penetrating messages all the ...

Baby long-necked dinosaurs might have been the fast food of the Jurassic Period. A detailed food web of the time, reconstructed from fossil data, shows that the young not-yet-giants almost ...

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April.

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Hair samples preserved in family scrapbooks across the past century have revealed the success of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to crack down on lead pollution since the 1970s.

While we have sent probes billions of kilometers into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own ...

In geology terms, a clast is just a word for a small rock fragment stuck inside a bigger rock. Finding clasts isn't ...