Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

The juvenile pachycephalosaurs, which predates the previous oldest dome-headed dinosaur by 15 million years, reveals more ...

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

The Pallas’s cat is just one of several wildcats spotted in Arunachal Pradesh, which also supports snow leopards, common ...

A study of human placentas suggests that urban air pollution may push the organ's resident immune cells into an inflammatory state.

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

A discovery in Romania shows the remains of an elite family's treasures from the Roman era that were scorched in a fire.

But where was Boudica (also spelled Boudicca, Boadicea or Boudecia) buried? Over the years, several locations were said to ...

Less than 400 angle-stemmed myrtle specimens remain in the wild in Australia. Scientists are working on ways to preserve the ...

A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...

A virus found lurking inside a deadly fungus may make the microbe even stronger and harder to kill when it infects people.