Scientists have found a new microorganism, the “fire amoeba,” thriving in the scalding geothermal waters of a national park.

In the canopies of a South American rainforest, a tiny soldier termite has stunned a team of international scientists with ...

A newly identified dinosaur species has been officially added to the family tree, thanks to fresh analysis of fossils first ...

Rutgers neuroscientist Peng Jiang was visiting his hometown of Qianshan, a city in China's Anhui province, when a neighbor came to his parents' house with a story that would stay with him.

But now, scientists from the Francis Crick Institute in the UK have made a new discovery that gives hope. A team led by Axel Behrens studied a special type of cell inside pancreatic tumors. These ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. NEW YORK — Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur from Argentina with powerful claws, feasting on an ancient ...

Archaeologists found a pit full of giant dismembered hands near an ancient Egyptian king's palace, hinting that warriors may have offered the king the hands of their defeated enemies as trophies.

New discoveries about the malaria parasite made by researchers at Columbia and Drexel universities could change the way malaria is treated in the future. A remote island at the very northern tip of ...

When the pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) firm Google DeepMind announced almost two years ago that it had used a deep-learning AI technique to discover 2.2 million new crystalline materials, it ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our closest relatives, redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for ...