For five million years, woolly mammoths roamed the earth until they vanished for good nearly 4,000 years ago - scientists finally proved why

Invaders, pirates, warriors – the history books taught us Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage.

An Israeli scuba diver has salvaged an ancient sword off the country's Mediterranean coast that experts say dates back to the Crusaders.

Americans may respect and admire how individual billionaires made their billions, even as they rage against the "top 1%" as a group.

Water is essential for life on Earth and other planets, and scientists have found ample evidence of water in Mars’ early history.

Nuclear war would cause many immediate fatalities, but smoke from the resulting fires would also cause climate change lasting up to 15 years

The ‘gravity tractor’ method of asteroid deflection involves flying a spacecraft close enough to an asteroid so its gravitational attraction

Researchers present a numerical estimate for the amount of encoded information in all the visible matter in the universe.

We know that the continents are moving slowly due to plate tectonics, but continental drift only pushes the tectonic plates past each other.

Scientists are studying ways to speed the regeneration of muscle tissue, using a combination of molecular compounds from stem-cell research

Mushrooms have been making headlines due to their many health advantages. Not only do they lower one’s risk of cancer and premature death...

Genetic code is millions of times more efficient at storing data than existing solutions, which are costly and use immense amounts of energy

Researchers analyzed idle thoughts for 10 minutes. What they learned may be useful in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues.

Most strokes happen when an artery in the brain becomes blocked. Blood flow to the neural tissue stops, and those tissues typically die.

Respect for judicial independence appears to be eroding according to an Annenberg Public Policy Center survey.

Children with higher levels of general knowledge and verbal reasoning are better able to produce humor, new research suggests.

In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may curve around them several times.

Enrico Amico learned that every one of us has a brain “fingerprint” and that this fingerprint constantly changes in time.

Eating a hot dog could cost you 36 minutes of healthy life, while choosing to eat a serving of nuts instead could help you gain 26 minutes.

Several years ago, it was discovered that a group of women with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer also have mutations in one of two genes