Antarctica’s Mount Erebus has been erupting for more than half a century, churning a permanent lava lake beneath its icy summit. Its plume may carry an estimated 80 grams of microscopic gold each day, ...

This is the first somewhat informed picture of what a baby T. rex was like. It comes from the first fossils identified as ...

In 1463, England’s Parliament turned its attention to an urgent matter: men’s toes. A new law restricted people below the rank of lord from wearing shoes or boots whose pointed tips extended more than ...

A naked mole-rat queen does not need a crown. She carries her power in her scent. In a new study, researchers report that naked mole-rat queens produce a chemical called isopropyl myristate, or IPM, ...

Atlassian Central stands tall at 180 meters (591 feet), now the world’s tallest timber skyscraper. Credit: Toby Peet. Sydney’s newest skyscraper looks like another glass-and-steel tower. But behind ...

The light spot in the middle of the head forms the median eye in this lizard. The animal’s regular eyes are not visible because the picture is taken from behind. Credit: Bruno Frías Morales / ...

It was one of those rushed mornings when I was already running late for work. In my hurry to grab my keys and head out the door, I knocked a few things off the counter, scattering loose coins onto the ...

Nearly half a million years ago, on a tidal mudflat in what is now southern England, someone held a triangular piece of elephant bone in one hand and struck it against the dulled edge of a flint ...

The last flames kindled by Neanderthals died tens of thousands of years ago. But fire leaves traces behind — not only charcoal and ash, but also tiny magnetic changes locked inside minerals.

Fifty meters below the surface of a Greenland fjord is not the place one might expect to find squid. Yet there she was, beside clusters of tiny eggs. Researchers exploring Northeast Greenland National ...

Artistic depiction of the solution scientists are proposing for solving satellite glare during astronomical observations. A telescope can spend hours collecting the faint light of a distant galaxy. A ...

Ebola is once again making headlines and has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern — the World Health Organization’s highest level of alert — after cases crossed the border ...