A new study finds a surprising number of fish, birds and mammals in the oceans 100 and 1,000 years ago. Can this information help regulators slow the decline of important marine animals?

The “late heavy bombardment” burned out any life that was around 4 billion years ago — or not… Plenty of high temperature bacteria could have survived in deep rocks, says a new study.

A stone tool discovered in Polynesia came from Hawaii — 2500 miles away. Modern analytical techniques show that Polynesians did sail thousands of miles across the ocean — without a compass.

Korean scientist pulled off the biggest scientific fraud in memory. How did he do it? How is science supposed to prevent fraud? Why did it matter, and who loses out?

Ancient mathematician’s writing found, restored, after 22 centuries!