Arms bound, tossed into freezing water—if you floated, you were a witch. If you sank, you were innocent... and dead.

It was approximately 66 million years ago that an asteroid hit Earth. The asteroid landed close to the present-day Yucatán ...

If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks ...

In the highly disputed South China Sea, China has made a significant leap towards advancing its energy and military ...

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

The study by the international team of researchers is a stepping stone towards better understanding the watercourses beneath ...

Perseverance discovers egg-like spherules in a Mars rock, now NASA is forming a strategy to investigate this in more detail.

Each week, "Flying Horse" features dozens of Central Illinois children's thoughts and drawings on various topics. This week: ...

The sea ice in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound has held secrets beneath its surface for decades. Now, scientists have unlocked ...

"Custom of the sea" was a historically accepted practice of cannibalism as a means of survival during shipwrecks and sea ...

It's eleven hundred tributaries drain the greatest river basin on the planet,(an area of more than two million square miles), and along its incredible journey it collects and transports one fifth of ...

As a result, startup companies like Starcloud and Lonestar Data Holdings aim to put datacenters in outer space. These facilities—designed to orbit the Earth or reside on the surface of the Moon—would ...