A study of more than 3,000 genomes has traced a gene mutation that confers HIV resistance to a person who lived near the ...

A likely source of contamination has been identified in an ongoing Listeria outbreak affecting California and Nevada.

A river that drained the slopes of a now-vanished volcano may have carved Yosemite Valley's depths during the last 10 million ...

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

May's full moon appeared full all weekend, but will peak tonight (Monday, May 12). Here's everything you need to know about ...

Ancient human remains in a famous Greek tomb can't be Alexander the Great's father after all, a scientific analysis reveals.

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and it's been that way for around 34 million years. Yet researchers have only ...

Winners and runners-up of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's 2025 Environmental Photography Award revealed.

But that trend is now faltering because of the increased cost and complexity of manufacturing chips, as well as performance ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and ...