Spring fever has arrived! After a year of pandemic, we can safely say this is the only fever we welcome. Just as bees are ...

For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian hillside has defied explanation. Stretching for nearly a mile (1.5 km) along the edge of the Pisco Valley, Monte ...

A 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq suggest Zoroastrians coexisted with people of other religions.

In the era of Mexica between the 14th and 16 centuries, it wasn't Christmas that was celebrated but a winter solstice feast.

New species of the plants are still being discovered, and their parasitic biology is being probed for potential cancer ...

As habitat loss and invasive predators decimate the Texas horned lizard population, researchers are banking on statewide ...

Getting to zero carbon emissions won’t save the world. We’ll have to also remove carbon from the air—a massive undertaking unlike anything we’ve ever done. Scientists monitor a mesocosm—an ...

Does Quetzalcóatl care if you're naughty or nice? For one Christmas in Mexico, he did, and Santa was replaced by an ancient ...

Stirrups, Pap smears, prenatal checks: At her busy office at Duke Women’s Health in Durham, NC, OB-GYN Anne Ford’s work with female patients of all ages usually takes place from the waist down. But ...

Researchers are looking for answers behind the mystery of Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known primate that ever lived.

Scientists say this shark has hardly changed since it first appeared millions of years ago. That’s why they’re so fascinated ...