Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

The discovery is notable for its size – equivalent to three football pitches – which encompasses the burial sites of around 60 people. Unearthed by construction workers in the town of Tiel, the site ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, revealing far more biodiversity than expected across animals, ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...

Right now, somewhere above our heads, missions are being planned that could redefine humanity's place in space. The decisions being made today about where to send our next wave of spacecraft and ...

Quantum computing has great potential , but its main unit, the qubit, is beset by inherent stability problems. However, this ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For decades, archeologists have debated whether the writing system of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), known as ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...

Richard Butler receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission and the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies. In 2025, dinosaurs were everywhere. In May, the ...