In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question "How did we get here?" These moments also shed ...

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 ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the ...

The truth eventually came out, however. In 2004, DuPont was fined $16.45 million by the EPA – the largest civil penalty under ...

In 1811, enslaved people along Louisiana's German Coast organized the largest slave revolt in United States history. The beginning of chattel slavery in North America birthed something else ...