Google Earth images and conspiracy theories claim a pyramid lies in Antarctica’s Ellsworth Mountains. While geologists ...

Is it really possible that half of all people who have ever been age 65 or older are still alive today? We explore the ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...

Humanity's origins have long captivated scientists and historians alike, sparking debates and research into where and why ...

Scientists found that carbon enabled Earth’s core to solidify. Without it, the inner core may not exist. A team of scientists from the, University of Leeds, and University College London has uncovered ...

In a ground-breaking discovery nestled in the mountains of the Caucasus, archaeologists have unearthed a partial jawbone of Homo erectus in Georgia, which ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event.

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

WJBC and The Pantagraph rode the radio quiz show wave of the late 1940s with "Quizdown," drawing teams from Central Illinois grade schools.