Link found between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer ...

More than 200 dinosaur footprints from the Middle Jurassic period have been found in an active quarry in Oxfordshire.

Gertrude B. Elion, a chemist working in the research laboratories of Burroughs Wellcome, revolutionized childhood cancer ...

NASA's new CMEx mission will measure the Sun's chromosphere magnetism, the origin of solar storms, hoping to improve solar ...

FDA warns that Great Lakes shredded cheese has been recalled for metal fragments in 31 states and Puerto Rico. Is this in ...

Archaeologists uncovered the 2,000-year-old Flaccus tomb at Heerlen's Raadhuisplein during a town-square excavation.

The European Space Agency recently inaugurated the New Norcia 3, a 115-foot deep-space antenna located in Western Australia.

Paris summit warns about “mirror life.” Scientists call for early limits on mirror bacteria that could evade defenses and ...

Rain gauges did not exist millions of years ago. Instead, researchers turn to indirect clues left behind in rocks, soils, and ...

Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which ...

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

A new study shows many doctors do not offer self-injected birth control, even though it is safe and effective.