A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a ...

Researchers have identified over 70 new species, from ancient dinosaurs to living mammals and insects preserved in amber ...

The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

Researchers retrieved reef monitoring devices that had been placed in deep coral reefs in Guam. The devices were placed up to 330 feet below the surface.

This discovery is important because it ruled out a major possibility for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

Far below the ocean’s surface, in a remote stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and Mexico, scientists have mapped 788 ...

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics ...

Seismologists have made a fascinating discovery about what lies beneath the Bermuda -- a never-before-seen plume of rock that ...

Scientists can finally hear the brain’s quietest messages—unlocking the hidden code behind how neurons think, decide, and ...

Where these sea raiders might have come from, and why they attacked the island of Als has long been a mystery.” ...

"We gained very valuable baseline measurements." Scientists issue warning over troubling discovery on Antarctic expedition: ...