An ancient woodland has been cleared of 2,500 lorry-loads of illegal waste. Almost 40,000 tons of dumped refuse were cleared ...

New study suggests that settlement of the Pacific occurred in a migration process with what the authors call a series of ...

A 2,000-year-old marble sculpture slated for auction later this month is more than a well-preserved piece of artistic history ...

The myth of Nicolas and Pernelle Flamel, medieval Parisians said to have made gold with a philosophers' stone, sparked a centuries-long obsession. Here's the real story.

Detected by the MeerKAT array, this “fast radio burst” comes from 3 billion years after the Big Bang, and could help map the ...

Eighteen of 46 skulls from subsidiary burials at Abydos showed potentially lethal injuries inflicted near the time of death.

Researchers found the structure's remains, as well as fragments of statues, while excavating near the Kapersburg fort, an ...

What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago?

Was it a dice workshop, a healing ritual, or the Roman Empire’s secret casino?

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. October 8: Perfectly placed Pallas Swimming high above the southern horizon after dark, Capricornus the Sea Goat is home to ...

Of the four species Formoso examined, Mosasaurus and Plotosaurus probably preferred maintaining a comparatively steady speed ...

Three years ago, George Kassiotis and his team made an unexpected discovery: A specific way of producing a protein called calbindin was found to help cancer cells survive by preventing them from aging ...