A natural remedy that has previously helped counter oil spills will be too slow to "do any useful work" if there's a spill in ...

There were different styles — the rounded lines and many chines of the baidarkas of Alaska, the more angular shape and rising ...

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

Various types of sled dogs have been used by humans across the Arctic for almost 10,000 years, but new research reveals one ...

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

A trip to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History reminds us why education and information for the people are essential.

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...

One study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammal fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and the other study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammals in the Haughton impact crater site located ...

Researchers have sequenced proteins from an ancient rhino relative from the cold, dry Haughton crater site (shown) in the ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue.On Saturday night, I had Indian food at a mosque potluck. The next day, I went to an African church service full of gospel ...