A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning ...

Researchers believe a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded above Earth almost 13,000 years ago may have had a ...

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The cult behind these rocks likely revolved around water, supported by the stones’ fish-themed designs and placements near ...

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at a sun-powered strategy from ancient civilizations to bring fresh, cool air into buildings; track individual monarchs on their migration to ...

Scientists have found strong evidence that Mars was inhabited multiple times. The team identified 24 minerals that pointed to ...

Dinosaurs’ extinction was caused by the Chicxulub asteroid striking Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Its fallout triggered rapid ...

Researchers studied samples returned by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission in 2020. The spacecraft visited the near-Earth asteroid between 2018 and 2019.

Researchers from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Stanford University scraped tiny samples of the blue paint and fired ...

The main structure of the Palace Museum's northern campus has been fully completed Photo: Courtesy of the Haidian branch of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natura ...

The newly discovered pulsar orbits its companion once every 19 hours, but instead of a smooth circle, the orbit is stretched into a long oval. Its unusual orbit makes the system very rare ...