Facial reconstructions help the past come alive. But are they accurate?
DNA analysis is changing the science of facial reconstructions and making them more lifelike than ever before.
DNA analysis is changing the science of facial reconstructions and making them more lifelike than ever before.
Forensic artist Oscar Nilsson explains how he created a facial approximation of an Incan "Ice Maiden" 500 years after she died.
Radio astronomers in California imaged the sun's scorching hot corona for the first time ever during a partial solar eclipse on Oct. 14.
The number of washboard abs you can show is determined by your DNA, according to research.
DNA from a supposed Abominable Snowman actually came from a horse, but that doesn't mean stories of the Yeti passed on by local people aren't important.
Researchers are only beginning to understand the cryptic lives of the earless monitor lizards of Borneo.
Astonishing footage from Planet Earth III, which premieres Nov. 4 on BBC America and AMC+, shows a herd of seals fending off an attack by the world's most notorious predator off the southern coast of Africa.
Scientists found a potential cause of a mysterious die-off of African savanna elephants in 2020 after they discovered deadly bacteria lurking in six corpses.
Only the sheep's skeletons remain, but such vehicles appear in Chinese lore.
The massive hall was built roughly 3,000 years ago and would have been used by royalty.
The sky's blueness isn't from reflecting the water. Instead, its color has to do with scattered light.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has found a hidden asteroid "moon" swirling around the larger main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, affectionately known as Dinky.
A megapod of dolphins with thousands of individuals has been captured on video hunting flying fish off the coast of Costa Rica.
Time can seem to slow down in near-death situations, and speed up as we age. Exactly how does our brain process time?
New guidelines from the American Cancer Society suggest millions more people should get yearly lung cancer screenings than were previously recommended to.
A study found that many common antibiotics were less than 50% effective at treating serious bacterial infections in children and newborn babies in the Asia-Pacific.
Winning images from The Nature Conservancy's 2023 Global Photo Contest include a wolf spider in a Maryland park with a hat made of her own babies.
The sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., on Friday.
With five more protons than should be stable, the newly discovered nitrogen-9 isotope sits right on the borderline of physical possibility.