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It took two generations to bring this fossil to light.
Big science going on at the small scale.
As Rosetta's mission draws close to an end, its high-resolution camera snapped a few photos of the Philae lander.
There are absolutely no subsidies which means this is the cheapest power plant in the world.
Mammoth tusks are used as a front to launder illegal elephant ivory smuggling.
It's eclipse season for the Solar Observatory
Pushing the boundaries of life farther in time than ever before.
Starving your crops might seem counterintuitive, but these ants have a pretty good reason for it.
Invasive species - such as pigs, goats, rats and slugs - are destroying Hawaii's flora fast, a new IUCN report states.
Scientists devise the most promising carbon nanotube transistors yet.
While the situation of pandas is improving, the same can't be said about great apes.
Good news: giant pandas rebound!
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a final ruling effectively banning antibacterial soaps as they exist today.
This is the closest we've come to seeing an ancient Egyptian woman.
To be fair, students will do insane things for food.
Knowing the Internet, I'm surprised it took this long.
The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has revealed some information which may force us to rethink the evolution of the early Universe.
Pictures from NASA's Dawn spacecraft seem to indicate that the dwarf planet was much more active than we thought.
They're a really tough species to fight.
Stanford engineers have developed cheap, low-cost textiles that can cool your body much more efficiently than existing clothes.
SpaceX has suffered a serious setback after one of its rockets, carrying a $200 million communications satellite, exploded yesterday.
It's not the full picture, but its a lot more than we knew before.
The synthetic tissue is safer and more reliable than that sourced from dead pigs or human cadavers.
The '60s were very creative.
Clean brain, clean memories.
A stunning new five dollar bill was released by the Australian government.
Africa's elephants might become endangered soon because of widespread poaching.
This is not good news.
Not all flying reptiles were big.
Tracking the plague's origins -- so something like it won't happen again.
And here I was thinking people in Metropolis are plain stupid.
U.N. health officials have issued a grim warning: we're running out of ways to treat gonorrhea.
The sub will be used to explore Titan's oceans.
The two aren't interchangeable.
... and counting!
Modern archaeology is a lot like crime scene investigation.
The brain needs a lot of blood to be smart.
These trees shellfishly used the First Nations' trash to grow.
A discussion of tremendous importance for the internet was taking place these days, although most of us weren't even aware of it.
When all hope was thought to be lost, selection came to the rescue.
Visualizing the impending migration of birds, amphibians, and mammals.
Scientists track how a critical chemical element for life got to our planet.
Spinning black holes are capable of complex quantum information processes encoded in the X-ray photons emitted by the accretion disk.
The towering Brock Commons is the world's biggest structure made from wood.
This isn't the final word, though.
A star system 94 light-years away stepped in as a potential candidate for intelligent life.
Ten years ago, the first cervical cancer vaccine was administered in Australia.
After two large earthquakes with magnitudes over 4, the Katla volcano in Iceland seems set to erupt.
Eye drops are so last century.
Who says desalinization isn't sexy?
