In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

On Jan. 9, 1800, a strange boy wandered out of the woods and into the small village of Saint-Sernin in the South of France. Clad only in the torn remnants of a shirt, he appeared wholly untutored, ...

Documents revealing how infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death," led an open post-war life in Argentina were found among a massive trove of evidence released and declassified ...

THANKS TO A CACHE OF DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS, the public is now well aware of the Central Intelligent Agency’s misadventures in mind control throughout the 1950s and 1960s. MKUltra—the agency’s ...

E very year since 1989, the department of anatomical sciences at Stony Brook University has awarded the Norman Creel Prize for Outstanding Student Research in Anatomical Sciences, named for a ...

HANAU, Germany (AP) — Police in Germany said Thursday they were investigating the appearance of swastikas painted with human blood and smeared on dozens of cars, some mailboxes, and building facades ...

Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team headed by Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD ...

Last week, German federal, state, and local authorities adopted Common Guidelines on the handling of cultural assets and human remains from colonial contexts. Despite the welcome efforts to regulate ...

A dorsal view of a male Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum. “It is anticipated that warming temperatures related to climate change may lead to the continued range expansion and abundance of several ...