A study of more than 3,000 genomes has traced a gene mutation that confers HIV resistance to a person who lived near the ...

A likely source of contamination has been identified in an ongoing Listeria outbreak affecting California and Nevada.

Ancient human remains in a famous Greek tomb can't be Alexander the Great's father after all, a scientific analysis reveals.

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

A river that drained the slopes of a now-vanished volcano may have carved Yosemite Valley's depths during the last 10 million ...

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did — and learn to ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...

"My contention is that Earth may, if we are lucky and diligent and clever enough, grow an emergent superconsciousness." ...

Winners and runners-up of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's 2025 Environmental Photography Award revealed.

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and it's been that way for around 34 million years. Yet researchers have only ...

But that trend is now faltering because of the increased cost and complexity of manufacturing chips, as well as performance ...