For years, scientists believed the “giant impact” that formed the Moon melted and reshaped the entire young Earth, erasing its original composition. The new MIT findings challenge that view.

A major dinosaur trackway, 166 million years old, has been discovered in Oxfordshire. This find reveals hundreds of ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's a Monster Mash and you can meet the “Ghosts of ...

"They’re iconic features." Scientists issue warning that ancient US feature could completely vanish: 'We'll be the first to ...

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...

Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

The Islamic Golden Age thrived as Greek thought, preserved by the Byzantines and rendered into Arabic, powered Baghdad’s ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that ...

Scientists believe they’ve decoded the mysterious symbols of Teotihuacan, revealing a potential ancient ancestor of Nahuatl.

With no roads leading into the national park, the 6,000 square miles of Western Arctic wilderness receives about 100 visitors ...

Hominids experienced lead exposure as far back as 2-million years ago, new research finds, challenging the theory that the ...