The bone container is a hollowed-out sheep or goat femur intentionally sealed at one end with a birch-bark tar plug. It ...

In a first, CRISPR-modified donor cells sidestep the immune system.

A new study from researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that people who deliberately choose a ...

The 5,700-year-old remains bear chilling signs of slaughter and consumption.

Now, researchers at University College London and their collaborators have engineered a new class of indoor solar cell that ...

It’s not uncommon for scientists to find the occasional oddity in the middle of the North Pacific. But just North of Hawaii, ...

A team of scientists at King’s College London thinks there might be another way. They’ve found that keratin — the same ...

In the lexicon of economic afflictions, “stagflation” is one of the bad ones. The term (a portmanteau of “stagnation” and ...

Mercury is still shrinking as it cools in the aftermath of its formation; new research narrows down estimates of just how ...

But between the Roman era and the first sustained arrival of Africans, most enslaved, during the Tudor era (early 16th ...

The “Herring Lassies,” also known as “Herring Girls” or “Scots Fisher Lassies,” represented a substantial and dynamic female workforce that moved around and followed the herring. They came from the ...

Because the jet is aimed almost directly toward Earth, its brightness is amplified “by a factor of 30 or more,” said co-author Jack Livingston. At the same time, perspective plays a trick on observers ...