A study of magnetic fields suggests the Red Planet held water for longer than previously believed.

Biomolecular archaeology reveals a fuller picture of the Xiongnu people, the world’s first nomadic empire.

Fast climatic shifts due to global warming coincided with high rates of morphological change in most reptiles.

Forgetting generates changes in the brain and does not reverse the learning process, Harvard study finds.

Javier Luque’s first thought while looking at the 100-million-year-old piece of amber wasn’t whether the crustacean trapped inside could help fill a crucial gap in crab evolution. He just kind of wondered how the heck it got stuck in the now-fossilized tree resin? “In a way, it’s like finding a fish in amber,” said Luque, […]

Antarctic Ice Sheet melting to lift sea level higher than thought, study says. New calculations show the rise due to warming would be 30% above forecasts.

Harvard researchers detect some of the earliest evidence for modern-like plate motion.