Ancient human remains in a famous Greek tomb can't be Alexander the Great's father after all, a scientific analysis reveals.

A likely source of contamination has been identified in an ongoing Listeria outbreak affecting California and Nevada.

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

A study of more than 3,000 genomes has traced a gene mutation that confers HIV resistance to a person who lived near the ...

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did — and learn to ...

A river that drained the slopes of a now-vanished volcano may have carved Yosemite Valley's depths during the last 10 million ...

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Neural processing unts (NPUs) are the latest chips you might find in smartphones and laptops — but what are they ard why are they so important?

May's full moon appeared full all weekend, but will peak tonight (Monday, May 12). Here's everything you need to know about ...