A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the ...

On November 27th, Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome experienced a severe accident that has suspended Russia's ability to launch ...

A brutal confluence of environmental change and human fishing habits left tens of thousands of adult African penguins off South Africa's coast without enough food to survive, reducing their population ...

Oddly shaped conch shells found at Neolithic archaeological sites dating back 6,000 years could have served as technology for ...

Scientists looking to tackle our ongoing obesity crisis have made an important discovery: Intermittent calorie restriction ...

We may have been overestimating the role of a pathological class of misfolded protein in neurodegenerative disease.

Dangerous bacteria and other disease-causing microbes are rapidly evolving ways to defy our best antibiotic medications, a ...

Have you ever seen a dog focused on nuzzling their expensive treat under a blanket, behind a couch cushion, or into a freshly ...

A review by researchers from the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford in the UK has found that controlled ...

This week in science: the genetic secrets of the 'vampire squid from hell'; a dinosaur superhighway; the longest known ...

The male-determining sex chromosome has lost 97 percent of its ancestral genes in the last 300 million years. If that rate ...

Chronic tinnitus may increase stress levels by keeping the body that much closer to a fight-or-flight response to sound, a ...