Shaking caused by quakes may cause ocean floor vents to release more nutrients, triggering blooms in plant-like organisms ...

Learn how microscopic chemical traces preserved on stone tools are revealing new details about early human hunting practices.

Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

Botanists also name an overlooked snowdrop growing in the UK and a fruit that tastes like banana and guava ...

Scientists at Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern found certain parasites struggled to make eggs ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

A pile of ancient arrowheads from southern Africa still holds traces of toxic plant residue, even after some 60,000 years.

We humans are a delicate bunch. We don’t have bark, boney exo-plates, or lush fur to protect us from hostile environments, so ...

Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it ...

Cholera, a severe bacterial infection that causes diarrhea and kills if untreated, can be defeated with a diet high in ...

If you’re a gardener – and definitely if you’re a farmer – you want to spend less on fertilizer but while growing more food.

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...