As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

A discovery similar to “finding a needle in a haystack” has confirmed that Scotland's volcanic landscape once rivalled the ...

Wet clay was allowed to collapse in on itself to form these sculptural ceramic socket boards, born from a collaboration ...

Cave data shows the Arctic was permafrost-free when Earth was 4.5˚C warmer, hinting at what rising temperatures could bring.

The ancient Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (500-428 BC) was the first person to hypothesize that the seeds of life are present ...

Earth’s rotation is speeding up. This summer, our planet will spin faster than usual, creating the shortest day since records ...

New Testament scholar N T Wright recently pushed back on the assumption that Jesus and the apostle Paul expected the world to ...

These films are worthy of your time... but to be fair, they do take up a lot of it. Here are the best movies longer than 3 ...

Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...