Here's one more wonder of life in the Sonoran Desert: Wild-growing fruit is just now coming into its edible prime - never mind that it's almost winter. The fruit of the barrel cactus thrives - and ...

Archaeologists in France have discovered the remains of a 16th-century gallows where bodies of the condemned were displayed after they were hanged. The corpses of the men — and a few women — were then ...

The oldest bat skeletons in the world have been identified as a new species, helping scientists fill in the spotty fossil record of these flying mammals and providing new clues about how they evolved.

Cacti are bursting into bloom around the Tucson valley. The milky white flowers of saguaros, yellow blooms of prickly pears and other kinds of cactus are arriving just in time to fill a void left by ...

Intervertebral disc degeneration is a common chronic degenerative disease which predominantly occurs in aging individuals and causes low back pain. Here, Wang et al. report a nanozyme-functionalized ...

The first excavation at the famed Tower of London in a generation uncovered more than 20 skeletal remains. Excavations revealed everything from a 14 th-century Black Death group burial to three ...

Ancient bones can surprise anyone who assumes the past always lines up neatly. Scientists pulled fragments of DNA from people who lived on the Bogotá Altiplano thousands of years ago, and the results ...

How we see the world is a funny thing. We all think our perspective is “normal”, and that everything else revolves around it. However, the real truth is that our perspective is relative—and ...