For International Women and Girls in Science Day, the museum’s Ocean Portal spoke with “Her Deepness” about science, seaweed ...

The U.S. is full of archaeological sites, "but in most cases you could be standing right on top of one and never know it," Elic Weitzel told Newsweek.

(THE CONVERSATION) As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab in a university or museum to study the remains of past ...

According to the organization, the fish is a so-called “black seadevil” known by its scientific name Melanocetus johnsonii. They typically swim between 650 and 6,500 feet below the ocean’s surface.

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...

Gary Larson's The Far Side tackled several subjects over the years, though his particular take on music appealed to a number ...

Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the world’s largest museum dedicated to African-American history and culture. It’s one of the most visited museums in the United States, ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

Indeed, "How Things Work" is the title both of Bloomfield's now legendary physics course as well as the textbook, now in its sixth edition, that he wrote for John Wiley & Sons Inc. And Bloomfield's ...