Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient ...

Instagram users may overestimate the extent to which they are addicted to the platform, according to research conducted on ...

Optical lattice clocks are devices that measure the passing of time via the frequency of light that is absorbed or emitted by ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

The material used to build the Temple of Venus in Naples has remarkably endured even as Earth's surface around it sank from ...

Quantum thermal machines are devices that leverage quantum mechanical effects to convert energy into useful work or cooling, ...

New research has revealed that marine mammals who live far below the ocean's surface are not immune from the burden of toxic ...

Astronomers have performed very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of a gamma-ray loud blazar known as TXS ...

Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up ...