A Pictish fort that was long thought demolished has recently been unearthed under a town in Scotland.

Internet searches about suicide increased in the weeks following the release of the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why."

Most fish would be left high and dry during arid drought periods when bodies of water shrink and disappear — but African lungfish aren't most fish.

Students searching for a Mars-like landscape in a Canadian park took an unexpected detour into paleontology.

Properties, sources and uses of the element vanadium.

The concept of zero, both as a placeholder and as a symbol for nothing, is a relatively recent development.

What do you do when find a puffed-up, beach ball-size hedgehog? You take it to the vet to be deflated.

Conjoined twins are rare, but the condition is likely no rarer in bats than in any other mammals.

It's hard to turn down birthday cake, but a new study might have you thinking twice about taking a slice.

A woman in Japan died last year from a tick-borne disease — but she was never bitten by a tick.

A new animated map illustrates the rapid increase in seismic activity in Oklahoma, which scientists attribute to the growth of the fracking industry.

The news may have come as a surprise, but it probably shouldn't have. A bioethics expert walks through how big a deal this announcement is – and what we should be considering now.

The image of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out is probably one of most ubiquitous (and memorable) photos of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

Tardigrades are virtually indestructible, and scientists believe alien life could share some of the same qualities as these tiny creatures.

A biologist in Oregon has successfully used CRISPR to edit single-celled embryos carrying severe genetic defects.