An international team in South Africa has pinned the earliest known use of fire by Homo erectus back to between 1.07 and 1.79 million years...

The outbreak occurred much earlier than the Middle Ages and had an unexpectedly high mortality rate.

Three drugs in particular have become household names not because of their original uses, but because of what researchers later discovered t...

The fault lines have reached “unprecedented levels,” according to the study.

The bias certainly appears to exist, but scientists still have no idea why it exists.

The research has significantly updated the understanding of when specific volcanic events happened in Northern Ireland

For centuries, the tale has been passed from generation to generation: how the Irish giant Finn McCool built the Giant’s Causeway in North...

Neuroscientists are discovering that spending time with others may be a basic biological necessity, like need for food or water.

GLP-1 drugs help fight the harmful inflammation that raises the risk of chronic disease

New research seems to bust a common hypothesis for how a Venus flytrap's trap begins to close, while supporting another.

Researchers traced new undersea ecosystems of soft coral, sea anemones, sponges, and more to large rocks and mineral deposits ferried by ice...

Ancient poop left behind by Arctic ground squirrels ended up containing a remarkable array of genetic information, a study says.

Geologists recently converged on a site near Barstow, California, to ground-truth a mineral discovery made on public land by a NASA JPL sens...

Even before it officially formed, this El Nino has gotten nicknames ranging from ‘super’ to ‘Godzilla’

An El Niño event has officially started, say US scientists, raising fears of extreme weather and higher temperatures.