With Gulf turmoil slashing Suez Canal traffic, shipping firms are tempted to try the Arctic for quicker trips between Europe ...

More than 6,500 years ago, someone carefully drilled a hole in a human tooth, strung it on a cord and likely used it as a ...

A human, an octopus, and a coral could hardly look more different—yet deep inside their cells, their chromosomes still carry ...

Science seems like a straightforward endeavor. You come up with a hypothesis, collect data to prove or disprove it, and ...

Precise activation of tens of thousands of genes is critical for healthy development and growth. Specialized segments of our DNA are responsible for carefully orchestrating genetic sequences that ...

Sometimes science throws up the unexpected. When a team of researchers set out to model river erosion in Canada's High Arctic, they did not expect the findings to defy common sense.

Now it's the moon's turn to pull a disappearing act. After being shut out of this month's total solar eclipse, the Americas will have the best seats in the celestial house when Earth's shadow briefly ...

Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon are California's most endangered salmon, with a single surviving population and an ...

Earth's inner core, composed primarily of iron with a small percentage of light elements, may enter a superionic state at ...

If you want to describe a particular color, you could look to the Pantone color wheel to find its exact hue, saturation and ...

In April 1917, the German submarine UC-30 sailed beneath the waves off the coast of Rømø. It had originally been on a mission ...

Bread, pasta and breakfast cereals may seem far removed from dry fields in North America, Europe or Asia. Yet when water ...