Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

Scientists found that this new spider is genetically quite different from its closest relatives, even though they appear ...

Scientists in Japan discovered Physalia mikazuki, a new venomous jellyfish species carried north by warm currents.

In a dim German laboratory in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen’s accidental discovery of X-rays cracked open a new era in medicine, ...

Humans likely left a lot of archaeological evidence along the Bering Land Bridge when they crossed from Asia to Alaska during the last ice age. But will we ever be able to dive down to examine it?

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than ...

More than 60 million years on from its final day on Earth, there's a dinosaur we owe an apology. Paleontologists confirm that the Tyrannosaurus rex locked in combat with a Triceratops in the famous ...

Scientists at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences have found that what was believed to be a juvenile T.rex skeleton is instead ...

What scientific knowledge is and is not presumed in legal reasoning, and what are the differences between what is and what is ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...