Lifestyle may have played role in near extinction of giant otter An Amazon river otter species' social lifestyle may have contributed to its [...]

Virus related to Marburg, Ebola found in bats in China (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images) A new virus similar to Marburg and Ebola has been [...]

Asteroid-induced tsunami may have had role in dinosaurs' extinction An asteroid that collided with Earth approximately 65 million years ago set off a [...]

China's Chang'e-4 lands on far side of moon, transmits first images China's Chang'e-4 robotic spacecraft has arrived on the far side of the [...]

Siberian unicorn existed much longer than previously believed A rhinoceros known as the Siberian unicorn lived in the Eurasian grasslands far longer than [...]

Winter solstice practices offer clues to history of indigenous peoples Winter solstice rituals can provide researchers with ample information about indigenous peoples and [...]

Researchers create clothes made from wood, other recyclables Researchers at Aalto and Helsinki universities in Finland have developed a way to turn birch [...]

Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space Voyager 2 has made the same entrance as fellow spacecraft Voyager 1 into interstellar space, according to findings [...]

First Native Americans were about 250 Siberians, DNA study suggests The first humans in the Americas were about 250 people who migrated from [...]

Shiny rock found by Mars rover Curiosity may be meteorite The Curiosity rover has found a shiny rock on Mars that NASA scientists [...]