The Endeavour’s historic voyage began in 1768. Under the command of Captain James Cook, the ship circumnavigated the globe ...

Religious temples across China shelter thousands of ancient trees, including species extinct in the wild.

“It is all black. Almost in a diamond shape,” said Hallur Antoniussen, the Faroese-born fisher who took the shot. He was ...

In a new paper, a group of planetary scientists, biologists, and engineers make the case for treating Mars as the ultimate ...

Breathing, at its core, is about moving electrons. In humans and most other organisms, oxygen acts as the final destination ...

There’s a new type of LED in town. These light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are made from a material called perovskite, a calcium ...

Was the “Big Bang” a cosmic rebound? New study suggests the Universe may have started inside a giant black hole.

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

When a beam of infrared light strikes their ultra-thin lens—barely thicker than a red blood cell—it emerges on the other side ...

Hundreds of endangered Australian Green and Golden Bell found a cozy and toasty place to huddle up. Unbeknownst to them, this ...

Life on Earth blooms with wild ingenuity. From phosphorescent fungi feeding in the undergrowth to chameleons flicking tongues ...

As archaeologists continue to study Küllüoba—a settlement of the Hattians, the Anatolian people who preceded the ...