Spotted bats in an Arizona cave share maternal DNA with bats that died there 2,100 years ago, while the Southwest holds most of their variety.

Eleven of 26 Iron Age skulls from Matelica, Italy, show flat head syndrome, the earliest known cases in Italy, long before ...

Reintroducing bison to Kansas prairies doubled native plant diversity over decades, helping grasslands recover from drought ...

A new study finds that invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades can spread native and invasive plant seeds, adding to their ...

New research reveals how the forever chemical PFOS disrupts a key immune protein, allowing flu and other viruses to multiply ...

A space debris shield of hollow metal eggs cut a projectile's speed by 64.9 percent in simulations, well past the 51 percent ...

A new study suggests that choosing your own music may be more effective at easing needle-related pain than listening to Mozart or soothing relaxation tracks.

At Miseeda, Sudan, a 7th-century church was built around a life-size rock carving that may show a Kushite ruler and mark an ...

Volunteers digging on Lismore, Scotland, uncovered St Mo Luóc's lost monastery, with graves, carved crosses and a workshop where gold was melted.

Enceladus' ocean spray freezes slowly and shatters into grains that each carry mostly one salt, which could make signs of ...

A rare flower in Thailand mimics figs to deceive wasps while rewarding flies with a place to raise their young, revealing an ...

Tsunamis move the whole ocean, not just the surface. Flume tests and a rare satellite pass show how they start, how fast they ...