Lava is supposed to be red—that’s volcanoes 101. But at Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen, the Earth decides to break the rules. Instead ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

Seven thousand years ago, people living on the Atlantic edge of Europe built a massive wall of stone where land met water.

This search has led a team of researchers to an unlikely candidate—the humble carob pulp, a neglected food by-product. Their ...

The Apennine brown bear, Ursus arctos marsicanus, exists nowhere else on Earth. Genetic evidence shows that this population ...

An Australian researcher went undercover to learn more about how Broscience experiments with dangerous drugs — and found a ...

Dr. Sutherland is an associate professor in the Department of History at Dayton University, specializing in medieval history.

For all their hard work, peasants had a fair amount of downtime. Add up Sundays and the many holidays, and about one-third of ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

Janelle Carlson is an independent researcher and journalist specializing in history, human rights, genocide studies, and post ...