A financially troubled Seattle research institute cut back programs, leaving researchers to find new homes for work on infectious diseases like tuberculosis and leprosy.

The distribution of shells in one population of hermit ***** matched how wealth is shared in some human societies.

It took recent excavations to finally prove that the headgear depicted in hieroglyphic scenes was real and not iconographic.

The paintings on an Indonesian island are at least 43,900 years old and depict humanoid figures with animal-like features in a hunting scene.

Researchers hope the findings will improve conservation efforts, as some killer whale populations have dwindled and become endangered.

Scientists working with the solar diving mission have released the spacecraft’s first batch of findings.

Solenodons are highly unusual, and very difficult to study.

At first astronomers thought they had spotted a comet, but it was really an asteroid in the belt between Mars and Jupiter being struck by another object.

After a perplexing methane burst was measured by NASA’s Curiosity rover earlier this year, scientists were surprised again by variations in atmospheric oxygen.