The stone, unearthed at the Karowe mine in northeastern Botswana, is now under study by the Gemological Institute of America ...

Roney’s encounter was more awe than fear. Filming after sunset with another diver, he traced the jelly’s glowing form through the inky water of the Salish Sea, a place where cold Pacific currents mix ...

Iceland banned commercial whaling in June after a government report found it took too long for whales to die after they were ...

Taki Allen, 16 years old, was doing what many teenagers do. He was hanging out after football practice at Kenwood High School ...

It turns out that was no fly. Hjaltason had captured one of Iceland’s first mosquitoes—a Culiseta annulata, one of the ...

Mars has two permanent polar ice caps of water ice and some dry ice, and a few patches of ice both on and under the surface.

Vampire deer belong to the order Artiodactyla alongside other even-toed ungulates like giraffes and camels, as well as whales ...

If you think of climate villains, you probably imagine oil rigs and coal mines, not cattle farms. But a new global analysis ...

There’s a common assumption that intelligence is largely determined by genetics. After all, previously published studies ...

But a solid tumor is like a fortress. This clump of cells creates a corrupt and hard-to-breach ecosystem. It builds physical ...

Overall, the study tells us that by 1021 CE, the Vikings were already in North America. They could have been there earlier, ...

The researchers’ reconstruction shows that by mixing four resets at 358 months (the inex cycle) for every one at 223, the ...