Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

BEIJING -- As China's Qinling Station, the youngest of the country's five scientific research stations in the Antarctic, ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

Penguins are typically flightless but in this award-winning clip, hundreds of them defied their own limitation by taking a ...

Scholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. One of the first words, written in ancient Greek, was ...

Since Krystyna Clarke and her husband, Dr. Michael Clarke, retired, they’ve run in some races and traveled. Recently, though, Krystyna Clarke combined both.

In our travel news roundup this week: the rise in solo dining, where to save money at US ski resorts, plus the ...

Japanese research vessel Umitaka Maru has returned to Hobart as the Tasmanian Government continues to establish new trade opportunities as part of ...

Polar bears are among the planet's most iconic symbols of cold climate adaptation. They boast a thick layer of blubber, ...

On Nov. 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand flight left Auckland for Antarctica on what promised to be a photographer’s dream trip. The 11-hour round trip was dubbed a luxury cruise at altitude.

Sweet corn is an excellent side dish, both plain and all dressed up. But there's a cooking method for corn that can make it ...