U.S. Department of Energy scientists say they've used common bacteria to power simple machines, providing insight for creating bio-inspired energy production.

Experts on prehistoric man are rethinking their dates after a find in a southern French valley suggested our ancestors may have reached Europe 1.57 million years ago: 200,000 years earlier than we thought.

Proof that pre-historic people placed bunches of flowers in the grave when they buried their dead has been found for the first time, experts have said.

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Using atoms at temperatures colder than deep space, Rice University physicists have delivered overwhelming proof for a once-scoffed-at theory that's become a hotbed for research some 40 years after it first appeared.

If you're an invasive species, you've got it good. You can often take advantage of resources that native species are unable to use, like the way that barbed goatgrass has been able to tap the low water and nutrient levels in the serpentine soils of the we

This photo caused tremendous excitement when released by NASA on November 10, 2009. The Galactic Center we cannot 'see' with our eyes has been made visible as never before by the genius of the digital image, technician-artists at NASA. Pink and blue repre

ROME -- By clicking on Baghdad's Virtual Museum of Iraq website one can admire a selection of Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Islamic archaeological finds preserved on two floors of the building designed in 1937 by the German architect Werner March

Meticulous ancient notetakers have given archaeologists a glimpse of what life was like 3,000 years ago in the Assyrian Empire, which controlled much of the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf.

In a new research, scientists have revealed how mercury pollution is affecting Arctic animals like the polar bear. The research, led by biogeochemists Travis Horton of the University of Canterbury and Joel Blum of the University of Michigan, lays the