Reports of their venomous bites have been greatly exaggerated. Only about 15 percent of snakes have harmful venom. The number ...

NASA’s “Teacher in Space” added joy to many Americans’ lives and increased excitement for the future of spaceflight, though ...

Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

Researchers found that trees in Wisconsin that had become hosts to the eye-catching species hosted only half the fungal ...

Special intestinal cells collect excess minerals into particles the snakes can poop out, according to a new study ...

Neanderthals in two nearby caves used different techniques when butchering animal carcasses in what is now Israel, according ...

Paleontologists have discovered what appears to be one of the largest dinosaur courtship arenas in the world, just 15 miles ...

Pictures of Belonging at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, three ...

A Nazi captain gave artwork, which depicts an intimate Roman romance, to a civilian. When he died, his heirs decided to ...

Two meteorites found in the Sahara show tantalizing similarities to the innermost planet, and while researchers say they are ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

People living in British America and later the nascent United States recorded their family histories in needlework samplers, ...