Science

In the permafrost at the northern edge of Greenland, scientists have discovered the oldest known fragments of DNA, offering an...

As the story goes, a long time ago in Bavaria, beer underwent a transformation. Dark ale turned into a paler,...

To ward off supersized predators, many herbivorous dinosaurs were biologically armed to the teeth. Some had skulls studded with horns,...

Sound symbolism is when a word sounds like what it means. One type is onomatopoeia; for example, words that describe...

“You look at these animals living up and down the coast — they must have had a huge impact,” Dr....

In the 1970s, when Jaymus Perry was growing up on the Navajo Nation reservation near Buell Park, Ariz., he and...

When a lawsuit was filed to block the nation’s first major offshore wind farm off the Massachusetts coast, it appeared...

In 1963, a geophysicist named John Tuzo Wilson proposed that the islands, which are covered with layers of volcanic stone,...

Volcanologists identify magma reservoirs by monitoring earthquakes. Seismic waves plunge through Earth’s innards before being detected by surface seismometers. They...

Birds, the only group of dinosaurs still alive today, have evolved to make themselves at home in just about everywhere,...