A newly identified mutation helps super-sleepers get by on just four to six hours of shut-eye per night, while the rest of us ...

All that you've heard about the Vikings may not be true.

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Asian needle ants found in the southeastern states of the U.S. have been spreading north and west for years, but experts now ...

Very little is known about Powelliphanta augusta, an elusive snail species threatened with extinction. The new footage is the ...

Researchers exploring the underwater wreck of an American aircraft carrier have discovered what's left of a wood-panelled ...

A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever ...

A report into April's deadly flooding has found that climate change made the central Mississippi River valley's extreme weather event more likely and more intense.

Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

An Irish startup has created the world's first silicon-based quantum computer — it can still integrate seamlessly with ...

NASA's massive super-pressure balloon has completed a 16-day trip around the Southern Hemisphere — a milestone in ...