Researchers discovered that Homo erectus adapted to hyperarid conditions in Tanzania one million years ago, challenging ...

O ne billion years ago, Earth was boring as hell. Animals were yet to evolve and most life was small, simple, and slimy. Even ...

For a country such as Canada, which has no military-related nuclear waste, this fuel waste is undoubtedly the most toxic ...

A new study mapped continental groundwater flow, revealing that rain and snowmelt travel much farther and deeper underground ...

The longest-lived U.S. executive, Carter died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. “He was an ... Grandson Jason Carter, who now chairs the center's governing board, said, “It's amazing what you can cram ...

A plan to resume offshore oil drilling in Santa Barbara, California, has reopened old wounds in a city where a 1969 oil spill ...

In an extraordinary paleontological finding, researchers have uncovered a series of massive dinosaur trackways dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period, approximately 166 million years ago.

In three months, Saturn's iconic, icy rings will appear to disappear, giving you a preview of what the planet could look like 100 million to 300 million years from now. On March 23, an optical ...

That number in 2005: 806 million. A traveler consulting our 2005 ... Each year, the central question is, Why now? Why should a destination be included this year? Is there an exciting event?

And another study suggested that this phenomenon is actually a recurrent event that may have affected Earth up to 11 million years ago. If that proves true, this would contradict the idea that ...

Telescopes in space and on Earth ... a million years from now. But when it does blow, it will likely cause a supernova — the biggest type of explosion known to man. Eta Carinae is about 100 ...