This rare example of an Aztec ritual mask was carved from wood over five centuries ago to represent Mictlantecuhtli, the god ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gives the climate event a 63% chance to "rank among the largest El Niño ...

In response to the Disneyland outbreak, we ended up passing SB-277 in California and a number of other important vaccination ...

Planet Earth Atacama Desert’s center dried out 20 million years earlier than previously thought — before the Andes formed Chile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) of ...

The findings, published June 11 in the journal Science, come from the largest-ever map of Denisovan-inherited DNA ever created. The discovery shows that Denisovan DNA "is not just a remnant of ancient ...

Science news this week: Goblin shark filmed for first time, California close to a major quake, physicists split photon, and inside China's plans to 'tame nature' June 20, 2026: Our weekly roundup of ...

Some of the earliest Viking "pennies" were made with silver that contained melted-down coins from the Islamic world, a new study reports. The finding confirms the relationship between early Viking and ...

The findings, published May 28 in the journal Science, reveal that Antarctica is more seismically active than previously thought and that new technologies can help to uncover hidden earthquakes in ...

Planet Earth Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct Seeds from the last surviving wild Dendroseris neriifolia tree are now stored in Kew ...

Manasi Desai, a student at Centenary College of Louisiana with an interest in cosmetic chemistry, launched the project with her research supervisor, Joshua Lawrence, an associate professor of ...

Archaeology Romans Lavish Roman villa discovered outside Rome's walls may have been frequented by Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius The villa, which came to light because it was illegally excavated, was ...

Poop detectives For the study, the researchers analyzed samples extracted from the poop pellets, which had been preserved for millennia in burrows within the deep permafrost of the Yukon, which ...