New research traces the genetic underpinnings of the enzyme amylase, which helps humans digest starches and sugars ...

Created from more than 25,000 high-resolution images, the digital model shows artifacts from the ill-fated expedition, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known Christian church in Armenia. Shaped like an octagon with cross-shaped ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

Could a private citizen get hold of a genome and use it to bring an extinct animal back to life? —Anjali Rawal | Encinitas, ...

Hundreds of artifacts have been unearthed at a burial mound in the city of Chifeng, but researchers are particularly ...

Many countries use weather balloons to gather high-altitude data on air temperature, pressure and humidity. Before the ...

Identified as an Arctic fox, the animal is believed to have been kept in captivity far from its native habitat in the tundra.

The Smithsonian partners with NASA to present the Earth Information Center, a larger-than-life display that visualizes ...

The final 3D atlas of the sky will help scientists study dark matter and dark energy, which make up 96 percent of the ...

A scientist used at-home experiments to test whether cats hesitated when moving through increasingly shorter or narrower ...

A bird making a nest. Taryn Elliott The nests and eggs of birds have fascinated us for hundreds of years. At its simplest the ...