For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

More than 70 people have fallen sick in a Cryptosporidium outbreak linked to a petting farm in Wales. In its latest update, Public Health Wales (PHW) reported that 74 people were now affected ...

Science can help. Anywhere in the out of doors there is opportunity for real fun with science. In this issue, we describe ...

The special chimney that gets temporarily installed every conclave dates back to the 1700s, according to History.com — and as the BBC points out, since the Sistine Chapel is a work of art itself ...

Pope Leo XIV's papal name has a storied history — and stretches all the way back to the year 440 TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty The 267th pope has chosen his new name: Pope Leo XIV. Born with his ...

More than 70 cases of Cryptosporidium have been confirmed in the UK, believed to be connected to a farm shop in Vale of Glamorgan in April. A four-year-old boy was among those that fell ill ...

After all, the plantation’s mission was to show visitors what life was truly like for the enslaved, contrary to the watered-down Black history that the president seemed to back. Then just as ...

A race was on to understand what was wrong. A blood test revealed toxic levels of ammonia building up in KJ’s body, threatening to damage his brain — a sign of an ultrarare and severe genetic ...