Archaeologists are hailing the discovery of a “spectacular” hoard of roughly 3,000 Viking coins found in a field in eastern ...

A key protein involved in fat metabolism has been found to do more than scientists once thought. Instead of just releasing fat, it helps maintain healthy fat tissue and balance in the body. When it’s ...

A team at King’s College London has created a powerful new aluminum compound capable of doing the work of expensive rare ...

The star-studded event celebrated achievements by the world’s top scientists in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” ...

"The Story of Everything" documentary argues scientific discoveries about the universe, DNA and fine-tuning point to the ...

Museum CEO stepping down July 31.

In 1900, Greek sponge fishermen stumbled upon the Antikythera Mechanism, a complex astronomical calculator that redefined our ...

J. Craig Venter, one of the lead scientists in sequencing the human genome and a pioneer of modern genomics, died on ...

Venter advanced efforts to translate genomics and synthetic biology into the tools for the benefits of human health.

An ultra-rare American lobster that's body is split equally between orange and blueish-green is making headlines after being ...

Every cell in the human body squeezes over six feet of DNA into a miniscule speck invisible to the naked eye—like compressing ...