One of the smallest human relatives ever found has been unearthed in South Africa. Standing just 3 feet, 4.5 inches (1.03 meters) tall, the adult Paranthropus robustus, who died 2 million years ...

Scientists have been complaining for years that the way we fund science is flawed. Researchers are too often waiting up to 20 months for grant funding, an eternity in fast-moving fields like ...

"These are the first high-definition images taken of the sun going down and then going into darkness at the horizon," Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for exploration at NASA, said in a ...

(Juan Cruzado Cortés/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0) Scientists in Brazil and China discovered the close relative of MERS-CoV while testing 16 different bat species in Brazil for pathogens. Only one ...

How does the IMD define a heatwave? Why does it issue specific warnings ... the entire country to measure various metrological parameters like Temperature, Relative humidity, pressure, wind speed & ...

Only a true Definition Detective can spot a word’s actual meaning in a sea of fake ones. This special St. Patrick’s Day edition is devoted to Irish slang.