In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Riverfest with fireworks, Gilman Square arts and music, Diane von Furstenburg talks, a pop-up serves Indonesian snacks and ...

PHOENIX — A Taiko Japanese drumming artist is coming up on his 2,000th hike up Piestewa Peak for sunrise this Friday. Ken Koshio started hiking up the mountain with his flutes and drums on March 23, ...

When they reach their destinations, wandering spiders from the tropical family Ctenidae often choose between two distinct ...

A Mount Pleasant house of worship's rise from the ashes in 1725 will be the cause of observance and celebration on Oct. 4, as ...

Pack a lunch and spend the day by moving water that soothes the soul. Hidden in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Quincy keeps its secrets well. This community of 1,700 residents knows how to welcome ...

An ancient DNA analysis of the remains of several mastodons, including those which roamed along the Pacific and Atlantic ...

Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals.

Using metagenomic screening — a technique for sequencing genetic material in samples that contain genomes from a mixture of ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

Scientists confirmed genetic continuity in Leonardo da Vinci’s male descendants. Work is underway to compare ancient remains and possibly recover his DNA. For more than five hundred years, Leonardo da ...

The 19th-century American naturalist Henry David Thoreau described the small freshwater lake at Walden as "Earth's eye"—a measure of the complexity of ecological interactions.

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...