To combat the poaching of rhinoceroses, South African animal preservationists are turning to radioactive substances: By injecting a small...

Despite threats from climate change and poor water quality, the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia has escaped classification...

Imagine a universe where you could point a spaceship in one direction and eventually return to where you started. If our universe were a...

In 2019, astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project made history after they imaged the shadow of a black hole for the...

What makes humans unique? Scientists have taken another step toward solving an enduring mystery with a new tool that may allow for more...

Belgian researchers serve up waffles made of insects as a healthy replacement for butter.

The world faces an onslaught of coastal flooding starting in the mid-2030s due to a "wobble" in the moon's orbit.

A prenatal test taken by millions of pregnant women globally was developed by Chinese gene company BGI Group in collaboration with the...

A footprint fossil of a new species of dinosaur discovered in China last year has been named "Eubrontes nobitai" in tribute to "Nobita"...

Clean, disinfected water is essential for a good life, but millions of people around the world lack access to it.

A natural food supplement ordinarily used to lower cholesterol was found to reduce anxiety in mice, according to a new Weizmann Institute...

A study conducted by Australian scientists led by Dr. Nikolai Petrovsky, an endocrinologist from Flinders University, and published by...

Archaeologists have discovered nine earthen tombs with stone chambers in Wolji-ri of Anak County, South Hwanghae Province, western North...

Almost a decade ago, archaeologists in central Israel discovered the fragmentary remains of a very strange hominin skull.

A long-awaited US government report on UFOs released Friday makes at least one thing clear: The truth is still out there.

In the future, your vanilla ice cream may be made from plastic bottles. Scientists have figured out a way to convert plastic waste into...

The coelacanth — a giant weird fish still around from dinosaur times — can live for 100 years.

The US government, once openly dismissive of UFO sightings that for decades sparked the popular imagination, is poised to issue an...

One of Stephen Hawking's most famous theorems has been proven right, using ripples in space-time caused by the merging of two distant...

To infinity and beyond! The world's first tourism agency that wants to send you to space now has a terrestrial settlement - and it's in...

Scientists are alarmed over the big amount of dissolved mercury they found in the rivers and fjords of Greenland.

Thousands of health-related mobile phone applications have "serious problems with privacy."

Turning decommissioned wind turbine blades into bridges is just one of the innovative solutions being put forward as a way of dealing...

China on Thursday successfully launched the crewed spacecraft Shenzhou-12, which is expected to send three astronauts to its space...