A metal detectorist in Germany has unearthed an Early Middle Ages hoard that contains 200 artifacts, including a pendant that ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

To answer these questions, it is easiest to start with the amount of gold that humans have mined to date. The U.S. Geological ...

Even though there are 8 billion people on Earth today, a catastrophe could send that number much lower within a few decades.

A pair of 14,000-year-old "puppies" found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing, proving ...

As a result, purple and magenta are known as "nonspectral" colors, because they don't really exist as actual electromagnetic ...

A legal scholar with a doctorate in wildlife genetics explains the promise biotechnology techniques hold for some animals ...

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...

Researchers armed with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that some of Uranus' largest moons have one side brighter ...

Breathing patterns among humans are so unique that they can work as an identification tool, scientists report. They propose ...

The Zanj, enslaved people largely from Africa, rebelled at the same time they were ordered to build a massive system of ...

In patients showing cognitive decline, a new blood test for Alzheimer's is expected to make diagnosis more convenient, ...