Supporters of a measure to create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery in Maryland have rallied next to ...

The biodiversity of Earth's oceans is disproportionately concentrated in coral reefs—the vibrant undersea ecosystems where ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors.

For the first time, researchers have conducted a quantified analysis of the Roman siege at Masada. The team, from Tel Aviv ...

Study challenges long-standing beliefs about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, a culture recognized as one of ...

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health states that "research doesn't clearly support using cinnamon for ...

Tennessee comes in third with an average of 42.2 drug overdose deaths per 100,000 residents, 53% above the national average ...

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study ...

Researchers shed new light on how the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism modeled solar time with remarkable accuracy.

AI is advancing at such speed that speculative moral questions, once the province of science fiction, are suddenly real and pressing, says a philosopher and psychology researcher Frank Martela.