By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

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

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

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

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 ...