The most powerful volcanic eruption of the last century caused massive changes to the ocean floor, according to newly ...

A new class of cosmic objects observed by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory would be the key to two long-standing mysteries, ...

Stanford scientists studying 15,000-year-old stone tools have helped solve the mystery behind this critical technological transition phase.

A mathematician says relationships have a critical threshold that may reveal when love is headed towards stability or ...

Mercury may have shrunk 30% more than thought, as its cratered surface concealed evidence of the planet's ancient ...

This Denisovan radius fills a knowledge gap about these archaic hominins, whose fossils rarely include anything except skulls ...

New research investigates how the physical characteristics of ancient tombs might have affected the senses of the people who ...

Analysis of an ancient bird feather encased in dinosaur feces may have solved the 66-million-year-old mystery of why modern ...

What may be the earliest known evidence of human drug use suggests that it occurred 25,000 years ago, according to findings by archaeologists that push back on earlier estimates by over 10,000 years.

Defense aviation company Hermeus has announced the development of Ramjet-X, its next-generation ramjet propulsion test vehicle capable of carrying test payloads to high Mach speeds. The company said ...