Category: Science

In 1983, the octogenarian geneticist Barbara McClintock stood at the lectern of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. She was famously publicity averse — nearly a

A new assessment of the enormous Tintina fault suggests it has been slowly accumulating strain over thousands of years.

Archaeologists in Mexico have finally discovered the ‘Land of the White Jaguar,’ a stronghold for Maya rebels for nearly 110 years in the 16th and

NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems’ Program Manager Shawn Quinn captured this image of the Hadley–Apennine region of the moon including the Apollo 15 landing site (very

Washington State Department of Agriculture entomologist Chris Looney displays a dead Asian giant hornet, a sample sent from Japan and brought in for research last

A new analysis used near-infrared photography to shed light on the methods and tools for creating tattoos in the Early Iron Age Pazyryk culture.

Several vaccines for HIV have been tested in animal studies and an early safety trial in people, showing promising results in both.

Archaeologists are excavating a Roman-era watchtower in Croatia that was “built in a strategic location” on the banks of the Danube River.

Geologists unpack why the magnitude 8.8 temblor — the sixth largest ever recorded — fomented waves that reached Japan and Hawaii but caused little damage.

Klyuchevskoy volcano in Russia erupted shortly after a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake in the same region.

A slowing Atlantic current could have a devastating impact on the planet’s rainforests, a new study warns.

A previously-undetected flood over Greenland’s ice sheet has confounded model predictions about how the region’s meltwater should leak.

The Atlantic journalist Franklin Foer explains how SpaceX and the Trump administration are changing the face of NASA, and why Musk’s dream of Mars may

Smog from cars and trucks is an expected health hazard in big cities, but researchers from the University of Cincinnati found pollution from truck exhaust