A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

What appeared to be an ordinary cave on private land turned out to be something far more unsettling. Deep inside, a man had been living there unnoticed, hidden from the outside world. The discovery ...

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At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Imagine alien disclosure crashing markets and minds. 'Independence Day' to 'Arrival' give the playbook. Are we ready?

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As a shark tooth and fossil hunting enthusiast, I often have people ask me why I find fossils so fascinating. To me, the answer is simple: I’m astounded by the fact that I can walk along the beach in ...

A UFO whistleblower claims aliens walk among us, are billions of years more advanced than humans and may have inspired famous ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.