Small nuclear reactors are pitched as cheaper, safer, faster and easier to finance than their conventional counterparts. Hype around them is building fast, but some experts warn it ignores fundamental ...

In less than 10 days, Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman will present the government’s annual ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

At first glance, these fossil clams looked ordinary. But once opened, they revealed something completely unexpected. Calcite ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

Baltimore police have identified the body found off of the Gwynns Falls Trail on Tuesday and has made an arrest in connection to the case.

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

A towering 26-foot-tall fossil, first discovered in Scotland, has been confirmed by scientists as a completely new form of ...

A 24-year-old Baltimore native who vanished from his family in the late 1970s has been identified thanks to a DNA project.

In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” we’re continuing our exploration of the National Museum of Natural History’s Museum Support Center, the museum’s remote, secure campus in Suitland, Maryland.

Companies are integrating artificial Intelligence into all aspects of work and are now doing the same to life.

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