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

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 ...

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

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

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

Ever found yourself out of sync with normal sleep patterns after late nights or working a night shift? It could be you're experiencing what scientists call social jet lag.

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

Scientists have caught the intricate dance of cardiac cells coming together to build a heart, in a mesmerizing new timelapse taken during the development of a mouse embryo.

For the first time, traces of the West Nile virus have been found in mosquitoes in the UK, according to a report published ...

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

A new study has found the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which causes cold sores, may be linked to the development of ...