DNA analysis of tooth enamel solves puzzle of 2,000-year-old grave on Bryher that contained sword and mirror

It’s a little after midnight on a cold winter night. I’m in someone else’s van, driving down a highway I’ve never seen before. I’m on my way to pick up a load of marijuana and transport it across s…

When a caterpillar enters the chrysalis stage, it is not merely sprouting wings to become a moth or butterfly. Enzymes inside the chrysalis completely dissolve the entire caterpillar–brain, organs,...

The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults.

New research shows that Americans may have absorbed public messaging about the importance of recycling too well.

Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.

In Nazi-occupied Paris, “Dr. Eugène” offered Jews an alternative to deportation, slavery, and death camps. But the escape network was not what it seemed.

Banned for a century because of filthy water, bathing is to resume in parts of the river.

In videos obtained by The Daily Beast, Alicia Navarro, who is now 18, can be seen in a video interview with investigators, denying that anyone had hurt her.

Imagine, if you will, that one by one your friends and family-- the people closest to you-- are being removed and replaced with exact duplicates. Although

Here's how it went down.

NASA is looking to go to Mars with this system."

What happens when an invisible star dies? It erupts in an invisible explosion, of course. New research describes how these unseen 'bosenovas' may behave.

The long read: Is our tendency to expect the worst of people preventing us from supporting those who really need help?