Elana Glowatz

Humans and woolly mammoths have a connection going back thousands of years.

Scientists say a bubble of hot rock is rising to the surface of New England and will one day volcanically erupt.

Crushing lava and molten copper with a hydraulic press makes a lot of liquid fire.

A plane that dropped paratroopers behind Nazi lines during the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day is being restored to its World War II-era glory.

Archaeologists found parasitic worms in the poop of prehistoric and ancient Greeks, which confirms the medical texts of Hippocrates.

The crest-tailed mulgara has been found alive.

A group is looking for alien signals from the bizarre-looking asteroid that is the first to visit our solar system from another place.

Scientists have found a genetic mutation that stops one family from feeling pain and could be used to develop treatments for chronic pain.

Geologists found evidence of an ancient meteorite crash: alien minerals that would have been brought down to Earth with the space rock 60 million years ago.

Astronomers say an eighth planet the Kepler Space Telescope and Google-designed artificial intelligence found in an alien solar system means it has tied our own solar system for most planets discovered in one place.

Subtle changes in lava influence whether it explodes to the surface or oozes out of a volcano.

Male spiders become pedophiles to avoid getting eaten by their sexual partners, and the females get something out of the deal.

Tiny fossils of animal embryos have had scientists scratching their heads for decades, but now they have been identified as ancestors of jellyfish.

A British scientist claimed he created a type of synthetic alcohol called alcosynth that lets you drink as much as you want without getting a hangover.

The Kepler Space Telescope has found a planet with two suns and a bunch of planets that look a lot like Earth.

Scientists found a 99-million-year-old tick holding onto a dinosaur feather and a tick engorged on what might be dinosaur blood, all trapped in amber.

An extinct penguin species was almost 6 feet tall and weighed more than 200 pounds.

Scientists beat the heck out of a fake human head to show that a Stone Age wooden club would have made a really good murder weapon.

Scientists have sequenced the DNA of a Tasmanian tiger that was preserved for more than 100 years, raising hope that it can one day be brought back from extinction.

Astronomers are honoring native cultures from around the world with their new class of star names.

Earth saves us from incoming meteors by blowing them up from the inside out.

Fish hooks buried with a prehistoric skeleton show that women did a lot more in early human history than they are often given credit for.

It would take a heck of a lot of suns, Earths and other solar system planets to equal the mass of the enormous black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

What will kill off humanity and destroy the globe? It will probably be an event of our own creation, rather than a natural disaster.

NASA meticulously recorded astronauts during the Apollo 11 moon landing and other missions during the Space Race.

Wildfires can be devastating if environmental conditions are right.

Scientists may have found genes that contribute to homosexuality while comparing the DNA of gay and straight men.

Earth is in a constant state of vibration, even when there aren’t earthquakes rocking the surface, and now scientists have locked onto the planet’s frequency.

This crab has been spreading around the world, and its odd superpower of breathing in food might be why it’s so strong.