One of the ten largest earthquakes ever recorded just struck Kamchatka, the sparsely populated Russian peninsula facing the ...

A build-up of meltwater under the Greenland ice sheet in 2014 resulted in a flood of such magnitude that it burst upward ...

An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical ...

British researchers have discovered a rare handprint on a 4,000-year-old  Egyptian artefact, a Cambridge museum said on ...

When a pregnant woman had her blood sampled back in 1972, doctors discovered it was mysteriously missing a surface molecule ...

A snake so small it could be mistaken for a worm has been spotted in Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to ...

Aspen forest is reclaiming the skyline of Yellowstone National Park after decades of controversy over efforts to return ...

These tiny power generators cause a kind of metabolic overload in sleep-regulating neurons, the researchers suggest, which in ...

Roughly 76 million years ago, a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs left a trail of footprints that reveals different species may ...

Gold remains perfectly solid when briefly heated beyond previously hypothesized limits, a new study reports, which may mean a ...

So what should older adults eat? The message is clear: eat plenty of vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts and whole grains.

We know that exercise has numerous health benefits, but does it matter how much you spread it out? Even only working out on ...