As far back as 20,000 years ago, humans living around the Bay of Biscay were crafting a variety of whale bones into tools, ...

Digital legacies are increasingly complex and evolving. They include now-familiar items such as social media and banking accounts, along with our stored photos, videos and messages. But they also ...

Twenty years ago, the US Congress instructed NASA to find 90 percent of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth.

Forgoing the stress and expense of a child for a furbaby or two is rapidly becoming a social norm in Western society, with ...

Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time – and some of nature's tiniest organisms may ...

Megalodon, the terror of the Neogene, dominated its giant shark niche for just 20 million years before it disappeared from ...

Records are there to be broken, but when it comes to the fastest time to solve a Rubik's Cube by a robot, it's difficult to see how much more progress can be made: the latest record-breaking time ...

It's called Alicella gigantea, and it's the largest known species of amphipod, a shrimp-like species that is usually less than the size of your fingertip. By this measure, A. gigantea is a gargantuan: ...

All in all, Kīlauea's latest blowup lasted for just over six hours. Beginning at 4:15 pm Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, thin jets of lava began erupting from the north vent, turning from sporadic ...

An artificial island of sand dredged from Indonesia's seafloor has accidentally revealed evidence of a long-lost sunken world ...

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...

Earth's core is rich with gold, and it's leaking out through the mantle and into the crust, new research has found.