Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora ...

A number of well-known factors, including exposure to UV radiation, genetics and aging, can lead to cataracts, a condition ...

Largely due to groundwater pumping and shifting of land after the last ice age, major urban areas are subsiding, which could ...

New research shows that the weapons found in Germany are much younger than previously thought, suggesting they were made by ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

Get to know the bat-eared fox, an insect-eating creature found in the grasslands and savannas of Africa (and also the ...

While it went for well below the auction house's estimate, "Composition With Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and ...

Researchers describe cases of chimps tending to others’ wounds, as well as a chimp that freed another from a snare ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and ...

The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939" is a sprawling collection of more than 300 works at Chicago's Wrightwood 659 gallery ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...