Ancient human remains in a famous Greek tomb can't be Alexander the Great's father after all, a scientific analysis reveals.

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

A likely source of contamination has been identified in an ongoing Listeria outbreak affecting California and Nevada.

A river that drained the slopes of a now-vanished volcano may have carved Yosemite Valley's depths during the last 10 million ...

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did — and learn to ...

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...

"My contention is that Earth may, if we are lucky and diligent and clever enough, grow an emergent superconsciousness." ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Neural processing unts (NPUs) are the latest chips you might find in smartphones and laptops — but what are they ard why are they so important?

May's full moon appeared full all weekend, but will peak tonight (Monday, May 12). Here's everything you need to know about ...