A medical museum in Philadelphia is redrawing its policies about collecting and displaying human remains.

Modern humans and Neanderthals may have interacted 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.

When the court lights flicker on at the U.S. Open, tennis stars shine under illumination designed to cut light pollution.

Giraffes are now classified into four distinct species in Africa.

Scientists have gotten a rare peek into a dying star, exposing its interior as it exploded.

The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus.

Scientists expect Kilauea volcano to again gush lava in the coming days for the 31st time since December as the mountain lives up to its identity as one of the world’s most active volcanoes.

A series of panels convened by the Food and Drug Administration is raising concerns that the agency is skirting federal rules and promoting fringe views about antidepressants and other products.

Outer space has emerged as the world's next battlefield, demonstrated by recent cyberattacks on satellites blamed on Russia.

Coastal communities nationwide are ramping up efforts to restore and protect their shorelines as climate change causes more intense and destructive storms and leads to sea-level rise that puts tens of millions of people at risk.

New research finds early human ancestors during the Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously thought.

The human ancestor fossil known as Lucy has left Ethiopia for display in a European museum.

Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach.

An Oregon university says Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight have pledged a record $2 billion to its cancer center.

Republican lawmakers are blaming Canada for not preventing and containing wildfires, whose smoke has fouled the air in several states this year.

Six planets are hanging out in the sky this month.

Some cottontail rabbits in Fort Collins, Colorado, have been drawing attention because they have wart-like growths on their faces that look like horns.

A new study warns that rising sea levels could threaten Easter Island’s iconic moai statues by the end of the century.

It turns out many Americans misjudge which personal behaviors contribute most to climate change.

A manatee was recently spotted off the coast of Massachusetts for the first time in almost a decade.

Scientists from a university are filtering Mexico City's waters for traces of the DNA of an endangered salamander, the axolotl.

More than 70 million Americans have experienced the muggiest start to summer on record, with climate change increasing humidity in the Eastern U.S. An Associated Press analysis shows that parts of 20 states and Washington, D.

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a five-month stay at the International Space Station.

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars of grants that are awarded by federal agencies.

A scientist says fragments of a meteorite that punched through a Georgia homeowner's roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself.

Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died.

The Perseid meteor shower is peaking soon.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star.

New research reveals that an inconic Argentine glacier is undergoing its most significant retreat in a century.

Hundreds of Harvard researchers have fallen victim to the freeze on funding by the Trump administration.

Australian authorities say the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral in four decades.

One of NASA's two previously stuck astronauts has retired.

Scientists have solved the mystery of what killed over 5 billion sea stars — also known as starfish — off the Pacific coast of North America.

A volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has erupted for the first time in hundreds of years.

SpaceX has delivered a new crew to the International Space Station in just 15 hours.

The National Science Foundation can continue to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars from researchers in several states until litigation aimed at restoring it plays out.

Lindsey and Tim Pierce have welcomed a baby boy using a 30-year-old embryo.

Four astronauts are on their way to the International Space Station after being sidelined by Boeing's Starliner trouble and other issues.

Russia’s space chief has visited the United States to discuss cooperation between Moscow and Washington on the International Space Station and lunar research with NASA’s acting chief, the first such face-to-face meeting in more than seven years.

Utility workers in Peru's capital have discovered two pre-Incan tombs while expanding underground gas networks.

SpaceX plans to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station at 11:43 a.m. on Friday.

More fireflies than usual are lighting up summer evenings in the U.S. Northeast.

One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded hit Russia’s Far East, flooding a fishing port with waves from a tsunami, cutting power to a few areas and sending some panicked residents to flee buildings but causing only a few injuries.

An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches.

NASA and India have paired up to launch an Earth-mapping satellite capable of tracking the slightest changes in land and ice.

The first Australian-made rocket to attempt to reach orbit from the country's soil has crashed after 14 seconds of flight.

A 12-year-old boy has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake over the July Fourth weekend.

Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a brain-eating amoeba that was living in the warm water.

People with experimental brain implants often turn to the treatment as a last resort, hoping to improve their health when everything else has failed.

A scientific journal has retracted a controversial study that hinted at the possibility of a bizarre life form.

It's almost time to catch summer's double meteor showers.

A Russian rocket has sent an Iranian communications satellite into orbit, highlighting strong ties between the two countries.

President Donald Trump’s plan to boost artificial intelligence and build data centers across the U.S. could speed up a building boom that was already expected to strain the nation’s ability to power it.

Philanthropist Wendy Schmidt and her husband, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, have long insisted that the scientific advancements they fund be shared widely and for the planet's protection.

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest-known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years.

No one had spotted the world’s smallest known snake for nearly two decades.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says money, not just science, makes the case for curbing climate change.

Archaeologists have identified a 250-year-old shipwreck uncovered on a remote Scottish beach.

Italy’s highest court has ruled that a lawsuit brought by climate activists against Italian energy giant Eni and its government shareholders can go ahead.

As global temperatures rise under climate change, the bees responsible for pollinating many crops are under increasing stress and scientists are trying to understand how they are affected.

Harvard University has appeared in federal court, challenging $2.6 billion in funding cuts by the Trump administration.

Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” kicks off with a unique twist this year: “Dancing with Sharks.”.

Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years.

For 37 years in a searing California desert, runners from across the globe have embarked on a 135-mile race through one of the hottest places on Earth.

Researchers report that eight healthy babies were born with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help mothers avoid passing rare diseases to their children.

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth has sold for just over $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star.

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a half-dozen workers are making what appear to be gray billiard balls.

A volcanic eruption in southwestern Iceland has once again forced the evacuation of local residents and tourists at the internationally known Blue Lagoon geothermal spa.

Some dolphins in Australia use sponges on their noses to hunt fish, a skill passed down through generations.

MP Materials, the operator of the only rare earths mine in the United States, has signed a $500 million deal with Apple.

The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary are back on Earth.

The International Space Station's first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary are headed back to Earth.

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

A study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them from 1959 to 2019.

A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law banning the teaching of evolution.

A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where dinosaur skeletons are on display.

Flash floods last week in Texas caused the Guadalupe River to rise dramatically, reaching three stories high in just two hours.

The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying that a flesh-eating parasite has moved further north in Mexico than previously reported.

The 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed a new leader at the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Trump administration is dropping plans to allow continued use of the last type of asbestos legally allowed in U.S. manufacturing after an outcry from asbestos opponents.

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech company known for its grand and controversial plans to bring back lost species.

Residents are wearing masks to protect themselves from thick volcanic ash that is blanketing several Indonesian villages as rumbling Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted for a second straight day.

Submerged in about 40 meters of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides and generate electricity.

Indonesia’s rumbling Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki has erupted twice and sent clouds of searing gas miles into the sky while tons of ash fell on villages and flights were cancelled.

Congressional passage of a massive bill cuts billions of dollars in spending across many areas including clean energy.

The Environmental Protection Agency has placed on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a so-called “declaration of dissent” against the federal agency's policies.

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard.

Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system.

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

Iran is assessing the damage and lashing out over the American and Israeli airstrikes that damaged its nuclear sites.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is delaying by one month the planned cutoff of satellite data that helps forecasters track hurricanes.

The Trump administration has intensified its battle with Harvard University.

A group of Environmental Protection Agency employees has published a declaration of dissent to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over the agency's leadership and policies.

Japan has successfully launched a climate monitoring satellite using its H-2A rocket.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern states have reported witnessing a mysterious object streak across the sky.