The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ...

Data from 32 studies concluded that the impact of exercise is modest in terms of meaningful weight loss. Caloric restriction ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

Researchers measured the amount of nitrogen and carbon in the whiskers, which tells them the kinds of animals the leopard seals have eaten in the past few years. Both nitrogen and carbon ...

Retin-A, hailed as a skincare breakthrough, was developed through unethical experiments on incarcerated people, mainly Black ...

There is a lot scientists don't understand about mercury — namely, how it becomes its most toxic form and why our bodies ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that precious metals like gold are leaking from Earth’s core into the mantle, ultimately ...

Scientists say they have discovered three previously unknown, unnamed species of sea spider off the U.S. West Coast that ...

New fossil evidence shows that South America’s extinct mastodons were vital seed dispersers, and their loss still haunts ...

RPI researchers were the first to ever collect data during an underwater eruption on the Mid Ocean Ridge System. They happened to be on site to gather data from hydrothermal vents.