A newly identified mutation helps super-sleepers get by on just four to six hours of shut-eye per night, while the rest of us ...

A strange atmospheric pattern known as an "omega block" is preventing the usual eastward progression of weather across the ...

Asian needle ants found in the southeastern states of the U.S. have been spreading north and west for years, but experts now ...

Archaeologists can estimate a person's sex with 95% accuracy, but many experts are focused on what can be learned about ...

Very little is known about Powelliphanta augusta, an elusive snail species threatened with extinction. The new footage is the ...

A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever ...

A report into April's deadly flooding has found that climate change made the central Mississippi River valley's extreme weather event more likely and more intense.

An Irish startup has created the world's first silicon-based quantum computer — it can still integrate seamlessly with ...

Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a ...

NASA's massive super-pressure balloon has completed a 16-day trip around the Southern Hemisphere — a milestone in ...

Exposure to extreme climate events will increase two to seven times more for those born in 2020 compared with those in 1960, ...