Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study ...

Researchers have invented two new urinal designs that could significantly reduce the amount of urine splashback, keeping ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

Rocket start-up SpinLaunch wants to catapult hundreds of flattened "microsatellites" into space at once, using a cannon-like machine that accelerates objects by spinning them. The first orbital ...

That might seem like an evolutionary disadvantage, given sleep leaves us immobile and potentially vulnerable to attacks for ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

A massive gang of over 60 orcas was seen brutalizing an endangered pygmy blue whale off the coast of Western Australia by a ...

Many deserts face worsening droughts, but India's Thar Desert has become 38% greener in the past 20 years due to increased ...

Fall armyworms have spread throughout the world, destroying crops and evolving insecticide resistance. New research in ...

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...