What Iceland’s volcanoes are revealing about early life on our planet Speleologists in metallurgical “cooling suits” emerge from the extreme heat of a lava tube formed by the eruption in ...

The findings, published Thursday in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, contribute to scientists’ ...

Without looking, can you say whether your shirts button to the left or to the right? The answer is actually pretty simple: If ...

“ Phoenix Kingdoms: The Last Splendor of China’s Bronze Age ,” on view this spring at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, ...

Scientists are perplexed by the massive group of crustaceans, but they suspect the animals were pushed north by strong ocean ...

In a global study, scientists recorded themselves singing and playing music from their own cultures to examine the evolution ...

With nearly 20 national parks across the country, South Africa has more than enough beautiful landscapes and wild fauna to ...

Spiders are surprisingly adaptable, which is one of the reasons they can inhabit this environment,” says Ximena Nelson, a ...

The new interactive tool accompanies a study of school enrollment data, which shows that segregation has worsened in recent ...

Invented 50 years ago, the curious box deciphered an arcane kind of code to offer shoppers a trip into the future ...

Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between Looming large on ...

The film will be an adaptation of Walter Isaacson's biography of the Renaissance painter, scientist and inventor ...