A handful of monkey droppings scattered across a Costa Rican forest has helped scientists estimate how fast wild animals are ...

For more than two centuries, a fallen Revolutionary War soldier was unknown and unnoticed. Now, thanks to happenstance and ...

A whale expelling air from its blowhole is one of the ocean’s most impressive sights. But it’s not just air that comes out of the blowhole. Whales also expel a substance called snarge. This may sound ...

The powdery, sugar-coated board of gum! For generations of baseball card fans, there was nothing like scrounging up some ...

Ancient DNA indicates that humans’ ability and willingness to eat insects may have depended strongly on geography.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys sparred over evidence in a weeklong court hearing over the murder of conservative activist ...

Fifty years after the Guildford bombings, startling new forensic evidence in the case is apparently being sat on by the body ...

John Pumphrey was still a boy when he enlisted in the Continental Army in 1777. After archaeologists discovered his remains, ...

Permafrost usually hits the news as a hazard, a planetary risk. When this ice-rich ground thaws, it damages roads and ...

New research from UC Davis has affirmed what California ranchers have been saying for years: gray wolves are increasingly ...

The Natural Traces Consortium is transforming forensic science by expanding the range of evidence sources to include ...

It took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture ...