Hunter-gatherer genes likely favoured during the last Ice Age could be helping modern-day Italians live longer life ...

Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical ...

Just yesterday (Dec. 15), the Green River levee was breached, raising the specter of flash flooding in Tukwila, south of ...

Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality ...

The floor of the Cueva de Mono, a cave in the Dominican Republic, is a gruesome graveyard. For thousands of years, it served ...

The World Health Organization opens a major conference on traditional medicine on Wednesday, arguing that new technologies, ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...