A new study from the University of Missouri reveals how the remarkable fossil preservation at Mazon Creek recorded a wide ...

Steven Spielberg will forever be known as the great catalyst for what has become a rapidly expanding and controversial ...

Pediatric asthma ER visits dropped 40 percent after a coal processing plant near Pittsburgh closed down, researchers found.

In a groundbreaking study, new fossil evidence has shed light on the mysterious 5-million-year heatwave that followed Earth’s ...

Jody Freeman is a professor and director of the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard University. She was counselor ...

A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ...

A rare fossil in Dominican amber unveils a miniature, ancient “dirt ant” once native to the Caribbean. Ants are a common sight wherever soil is found, but one group is so expertly camouflaged that ...

Thirteen years after Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The ...