The new report highlighted that Kabul is on the brink of becoming the first modern capital to run out of water, but it isn't ...

Two days this summer have been unusually short, with the shortest expected on Aug. 5, leading global timekeepers to consider adding a negative leap second.

Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

Neanderthal genes may explain why some people have Chiari malformation type I, a condition in which the brain bulges out of ...

Ancient metal artifact discovered in the Czech Republic is a rare example of bronze armor from the Trojan War era.

Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young ...

Two minor meteor showers — the Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids — peak overnight on July 29-30, making it a ...

Scientists explore the concept of "robot metabolism" with a weird machine that can integrate material from other robots so it ...

Researchers have found evidence of a titanic tussle between a terror bird and a large caiman in Colombia's ancient La Venta ...

A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar ...

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a rare 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb that somehow escaped looters over the centuries.

The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.