What can centuries-old whaling ship logs tell us about today’s extreme weather? According to scientists, the answer is a lot. They’re using the information recorded by mariners going back hundreds of ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major ...

Lately, there have been many headlines about scientific fraud and journal article retractions. If this trend continues, it represents a serious threat to public trust in science.

Tropical storms have been steadily increasing in frequency over the past 5,700 years, new evidence from sediment in the Great ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Friederike Otto, 42, is a climate scientist at Imperial College London, where she is best known for pioneering the new field of attribution science, in which researchers calculate in real time how ...

Scientists uncovered a 5,700-year storm record from Belize’s Great Blue Hole, revealing a sharp rise in extreme weather.

In a world where household gadgets are often dismissed as mundane, Hannah Fry’s documentary, "The Secret Genius of Modern Life," reveals their fascinating history and the fundamental science behind ...

Colossal’s website spells out 10 steps for mammoth resurrection. Steps nine and 10 are: “implant the early embryo into the ...

With the discovery of the species, scientists can now properly develop a timeline surrounding the arrival of the fish in ...

If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation,” writes ...