Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils. That’s making it difficult—or even impossible—for researchers to improve our understanding of the past.

Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils. That’s making it difficult—or even impossible—for researchers to improve our understanding of the past.

About 175 employees remain in the newsroom, according to spokesperson Chris Iles. The company announced layoffs and buyouts for additional employees earlier in June.

Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development

Poor preparation and a failure to properly apply the coating may be just a few of the reasons why the Reflecting Pool’s new paint job appears to be peeling off

Knowing what kind of tick bit you and where you got it can help inform next steps

Mars researchers are wrestling with the potential costs of a flashy new NASA mission to the Red Planet

A new investigation alleges that official organizations in Tanzania have imperiled the country's artifacts and remains at four critical human heritage sites they were supposed to protect

The hantavirus cruise outbreak may not have started in a garbage dump in Ushuaia, Argentina, after all

The hantavirus cruise outbreak may not have started in a garbage dump in Ushuaia, Argentina, after all

The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to people, including hantavirus, but the National Institutes of Health in 2025 said...

The migration of birds from their southern wintering grounds to their breeding grounds in the north is in full swing

A growing body of research suggests that GLP-1 drugs do more than control appetite and blood sugar. They could also fight inflammation

Fossil jaws from colossal octopuses place them at the top of a prehistoric marine food chain

Binoculars and other far-range optics span a gamut of price points. Here’s what separates top-tier from entry-level

Scientists finally understand why birds were the only dinosaurs to pull through the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

The four astronauts onboard NASA’s moon mission just broke the record for the farthest distance from Earth traveled by any human

There’s no bulletproof remedy for a hangover, but a nutrition scientist explains which foods could aid symptoms after one has had too much to drink

YouTube video by American Birding Association

Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive community science project

Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250

The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so special?

Ice has many forms beyond the mundane stuff produced in a standard freezer

A pet cow named Veronika uses tools in a surprisingly sophisticated way—possibly because she has been allowed to live her best life

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known