A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

The former Brooklyn Dodger and New York Cuban leaves a lasting legacy of coaching and service in his hometown of Detroit ...

Stoats, or Mustela erminea, are a species of mustelid native to Eurasia and the northern parts of North America. This puts ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

You don’t have to be an Olympian to enjoy these snowy activities A skier takes advantage of several inches of snow covering ...

Once the whaling capital of the world, New Bedford remembers Herman Melville’s literary masterpiece with an annual reading ...

The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...

While winter weather blanketed much of the United States in snow last week, mountains in the western part of the country are ...

Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...

This coral usually looks like a common white veggie: the humble cauliflower. The aptly named cauliflower soft coral is made of “countless small, rounded, bump-like polyps that give it a puffy texture, ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Ants send messages to colony members through odor compounds that contain alkenes, chemicals that help nestmates recognize one ...