Religious temples across China shelter thousands of ancient trees, including species extinct in the wild.

The Endeavour’s historic voyage began in 1768. Under the command of Captain James Cook, the ship circumnavigated the globe ...

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Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

In a new paper, a group of planetary scientists, biologists, and engineers make the case for treating Mars as the ultimate ...

When a beam of infrared light strikes their ultra-thin lens—barely thicker than a red blood cell—it emerges on the other side ...

There’s a new type of LED in town. These light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are made from a material called perovskite, a calcium ...

As archaeologists continue to study Küllüoba—a settlement of the Hattians, the Anatolian people who preceded the ...

Hundreds of endangered Australian Green and Golden Bell found a cozy and toasty place to huddle up. Unbeknownst to them, this ...

Life on Earth blooms with wild ingenuity. From phosphorescent fungi feeding in the undergrowth to chameleons flicking tongues ...

In the heart of distant galaxies, astronomers have witnessed the most violent stellar death throes ever recorded.

About 2,000 feet beneath the ocean’s surface, in the dark stillness off the coast of California, a concrete sphere the size ...