It is widely accepted that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but now researchers say our measurements of the ...

Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park sits quietly in the Santa Ynez Mountains, patiently waiting for curious travelers to discover its ancient secrets. This isn’t the kind of attraction with tour ...

Microorganisms play a central role in metal mobilization processes, both in natural and engineered environments. Their ...

Houston’s nickname might be “Space City,” but when it comes to actually honoring the space industry, UCF is ranked No. 1 ...

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...

A dinosaur fossil discovery by a researcher from The University of Texas at El Paso may expand the known range of a species ...

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

A 410-million-year-old fossil shows ancient lichens were shaping Earth’s surface long before forests took root.

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions ...

Long before life thrived in Earth’s oceans, the planet’s magnetic field became disorganized. Deep within the ancient rocks of Morocco, scientists have recovered one of the clearest records of that ...

An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study — and the<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...