Geothermal debris is a more common problem than you might think: Already this year, park staffers have removed more than ...

The National Archives in Washington, D.C. will be showcasing the four pages of the historic document, plus a rarely shown ...

This time, conditions were different. Iraq is in the midst of one of its driest years on record in nearly a century, ...

Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the ...

Over the past several decades the lives of the domesticated and native pollinators have increasingly overlapped ...

Alsek Glacier disconnected from a mountain called Prow Knob sometime this past summer, making way for Alsek Lake to surround ...

The human remains predate Chile's Chinchorro mummies and the famously preserved pharaohs of ancient Egypt by millennia ...

A Smithsonian ecologist is trying to restore the plant, Spiranthes delitescens, which grows on Arizona’s sky islands ...

Using a variety of radar characteristics, scientists suggest the irregular detection was caused by bugs, instead of normal ...

The still lifes were part of the Schloss collection, which was seized in 1943. Auction house officials halted the sale when ...

New research finds that 79 percent of Fiji's endemic ant species—those that are native to and only found on the ...

Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge ...