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

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 ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

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 ...

An IndyStar analysis of publicly available data shows that hundreds of programs are at risk of elimination. The proposal never got a hearing.

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 ...

The one aspect that distinguishes Best and Brightest from other award programs are the unique portraits each winner receives.

“In the long history of claims of extraterrestrial visitors, it is this level of specificity that always seems to be missing,” said Boston University’s Joshua Semeter, a professor of ...

The Burlington area will be a buzz with graduations from May 16 to 18. Here's what to know if you are going on (or avoiding) ...