A new discovery puts scientists a bit closer to understanding the mysterious subatomic particle that is the neutrino.

Probably. If all Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt, the sea level will rise over 200 feet.

In 79 C.E., Mt. Vesuvius covered Pompeii with ash and pumice, preserving the remains of people trying to escape. Researchers have made a haunting new find.

According to current scientific theories, dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe. But we don't even know what they actually are.

How noble lords and ladies, terrified of poison, unknowingly poisoned themselves on a daily basis.

America’s favorite piece of workout equipment was developed as a device for forced labor in British prisons. It was banned as cruel and inhumane by 1900.

Ichthyosaurs gave birth to live offspring, had huge eyes and lived all over the world.

Medical cures are usually too good to be true. Numerous doctors wrote to the prestigious British Medical Journal, reporting on their prescription of raw meat juice to patients.

This new AI will protect endangered species from poachers, says a team of conservationists and astrophysicists.

Platypuses. They’re weird. In fact, platypuses are so unusual that it took taxonomists more than eighty years just to decide what they are.