A new theory about the Ark of the Covenant has been released, suggesting the relic believed to hold the Ten Commandments may ...

A documentary video of a lone penguin walking inland toward icy mountains has gone viral. Scientists explain what may cause ...

MONTREAL — After more than seven years in power, Quebec Premier François Legault announced on Jan. 15 that he would step down ...

South Africa’s post-school education system is ready for the 2026 academic year but there are not enough funded spaces for all pupils who passed matric.

“Looking at things at a very, very fast rate allows us to observe weird and wonderful phenomena,” Salamat says, calling the ...

Long before Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac helped organize years, beliefs, and social life. Here’s how the system of 12 animals evolved over the centuries.

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

Louis E. Brus, a chemist and Nobel laureate who discovered quantum dots, tiny crystals that emit various colors of light ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By creating bizarre, cage-shaped molecules with warped double bonds—structures ...

Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its evolutionary purpose may be to deter mushroom-munching insects ...