The stomach of an Ice Age puppy is shedding new light onto the woolly rhinoceros and what—or what didn't—cause these horned giants to die ou...

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Earth’s average temperature last year hovered among one of the three hottest on reco...

For 21 years, the SETI@home project tapped personal computers to analyze unusual radio signals from space.

Researchers are studying ice cores extracted from Tajikistan, where glaciers have resisted the rapid melting seen almost everywhere else, to...

New research finds that a popular class of antiparasitics can linger in pet feces for quite some time, potentially posing a danger to poop-l...

2025 saw a cooling phase in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, yet heat from greenhouse gases countered that cooling enough that the year still w...

Scientists say the findings prove an ‘unmistakable trend’ for a hotter climate

Scientists calculate that last year was the third-hottest on record, following 2024 and 2023

Last year was globally the third warmest year on record, scientists confirmed as human activity drives the “unmistakable trend” towards a ho...

Two new studies have identified the small changes people can make to reduce their risk of death

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 'signals of interest' with the world's...

"Microbes continue to evolve under microgravity, and they do so in ways that are not always predictable."

An experimental injection could restore the youthfulness of eggs taken from older women.

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be sure that the ge...

Researchers collect trace DNA from ‘Holy Child’ drawing and letters written by Italian polymath’s ancestor