Planetary researchers have found the first evidence that bursts of energetic particles from the Sun could warm the lower ...

Paleontologists in India have unearthed a partial skeleton of a diminutive, previously unknown neosauropod dinosaur from the ...

A new review of previous studies in the journal Appetite undercuts the popular belief that water fills you up at the table.

A new genus and species of cryptobranchid salamander that lived in lakes in Japan about 3.5 million years ago has been ...

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of ancient gecko found in two pieces of amber from the 99-million-year-old (mid-Cretaceous) amber deposits in Kachin province, Myanmar. One of ...

Thousands of fossilized bones from a Cretaceous-period bonebed in Wyoming, the United States, offer rare physical evidence ...

In a new review paper, Dr. Gregory Marcus from the University of California, San Francisco and colleagues analyzed decades of research on how caffeine — most often consumed as coffee — affects the ...

Paleontologists in China have discovered what they say is the earliest confirmed pieces of amber ever found, a fossilized resin roughly 385 million years old (Middle Devonian epoch) that predates the ...

Carbonaceous chondrites make up only 5% of meteorites so far sampled on Earth. CO chondrites make up a tiny fraction of that group. They are some of the most primitive and untouched materials in the ...