Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

Scientists have created an artificial RNA system that can copy itself using simple building blocks and temperature changes.

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped ...

Humans first evolved as a distinct species, Homo sapiens, around 300,000 years ago in Africa. In terms of biological time, we are a young species on this planet-- an unfinished animal, our evolution ...

To Serve Man” remains The Twilight Zone’s darkest punchline, but in the 1980s, another alien encounter delivered a second ...

While The X-Files gave closure to fans about many of its mysteries, some questions about the series' mythology remain ...

There is something spectral about Nick Drake — not ghostly, but present in absence, like breath on a mirror or a tune remembered only in fragments.

The House of Oddities and Curious Goods in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, answers that question with a resounding “yes please!” ...

Moving through the museum, you’ll encounter one of its most famous treasures: the Castle Lizzadro. This miniature golden ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

In the storied history of Sri Lanka’s foreign policy, only a few names have risen to occupy that rare space of being ...