"With a little time and patience, she warms up quickly and shows off her affectionate and playful side," a shelter worker ...

All this week we're announcing the names of the writers who took part in this year's Voices group. Today the focus is on the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft made a pivotal encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. Capturing high-resolution images ...

Ruth First, born 100 years ago, was a South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar who worked against the racist ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human ...