Scientists have found a new species of pterosaur that lived 200 million years ago along with the dinosaurs. The fossilised ...

Enough coal ash slurry to fill 800 Olympic swimming pools swallowed a town in 2008, carrying toxins, sickness and bitter ...

At Mission Science Workshop, San Francisco kids take apart whale skeletons, and use power tools and play with snakes — for ...

Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

Microfossils have a tendency to muck with our timeline of when life formed on Earth. As their name suggests, these ancient rocks contain the tiny fossilized remains of protists and bacteria, and ...

A Ph.D. student took to TikTok to debunk a false claim that nuclear energy involves burning fossil fuels. Ms. Nuclear ...

Nestled in the vibrant Mission District at 824 Valencia Street, Paxton Gate has been luring the curious, the macabre-minded, and the botanically obsessed through its doors for decades.

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

Nuclear power is increasingly seen as the next-generation source to support the energy demands of computing and AI ...

Fossils are amazing; not only can they spark inspiration for iconic movie franchises (I’m looking at you, Jurassic Park), but they more importantly also provide accurate timestamps that help ...