While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

The rotifers were frozen in permafrost in a long-term cryptobiotic state. We promise this isn’t as sinister as it sounds: Russian scientists have revived and cloned 24,000-year-old zombies.

The study, published in the journal Nature, is based on a years-long examination of a reddish patch of sediment excavated at ...

Researchers have reported a striking result in the biology of aging: a simple pairing of two existing compounds extended the ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

Of the many acres of woodland that extend across Holden Arboretum, scientist David Burke believes the 250 acres or so of old-growth forests provide unique value for research and the environment.

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...

The fossilised teeth of 18-million-year-old mammals in Kenya have yielded the oldest protein fragments ever recovered, extending the record age for ancient proteins fivefold. Daniel Green at Harvard ...

It's not easy to claim being an old woman. To start with, how can I be 75 when I feel about 40? And isn't it shameful to be old when youth is valued? People proudly parrot statements such as, "I'm ...