In a recent opinion article, marine scientists and electrochemists listed a number of reasons why it's unlikely that metallic ...

Fossils found in Niger belong to a newly identified Spinosaurus species that had a dramatic skull crest and likely hunted fish by wading, researchers reported.

A belt buckle featuring a snake devouring a frog discovered in the A bronze belt buckle featuring a snake devouring a frog is ...

The African continent is splitting along a triple junction of rifts that converge in Afar, Ethiopia. A new ocean may take millions of years to form, but that is giving scientists ample time to glean ...

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When he shook hands with the amateur fossil hunter in 1988, Richard Hebda, head of botany at the Royal B.C. Museum, was not ...

Haunted by the cystic fibrosis patients he could not help, one Iowa doctor commits his life to understanding what is broken deep inside their cells.

In 1894, French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey tried to resolve a particularly vexing question in science: How do cats always seem to land on their feet when they fall? Using the era’s rudimentary ...

In a bar, a poet meets the man behind the drug that saved his life — discovering how science, faith and chance created a future thought impossible.

Making a living brain transparent and watching its neurons fire without disturbing their function-sounds like science fiction ...