Take a photographic tour of the remote seed bank deep inside a Norwegian mountain that is designed to house the world's crop varieties in case of a global catastrophe.
A seed bank being built on a remote Arctic island could stem the global disappearance of little-known but potentially valuable agricultural plants, a conservationist claims.
Bone up on 2007's biggest archaeological discoveries—from Stonehenge's "lost" settlement to ancient Egypt's "female king"—with the most popular stories from our tombs-and-ruins beat.
Using samples originally collected by Charles Darwin nearly 200 years ago, scientists have found that windblown dust can carry microbes across whole oceans and continents.
Seven whales died in South Korea after a major oil spill earlier this month. Volunteers are cleaning the shoreline and removing bird-killing oil slicks.
From a mysterious meteor in Peru to a glowing deep-sea squid off Japan, find out which extraordinary finds from the past year struck a chord with our readers.
Soon after human ancestors began walking upright, female vertebrae started to evolve to help pregnant women keep their balance as their babies grow, a new study says.
Humans are evolving more quickly around the world, but local cultural and environmental factors are shaping evolution differently on different continents, according to new research.
Human pygmies around the world are smaller than average because they tend to live very short lives, in some communities as little as 16 years, a new study says.
The discovery, detected in hominid remains found in Turkey, could shed new light on the roles of climate, health, and evolution in ancient human migration, experts say.
A new Ebola strain has killed health care workers in Uganda. There's no cure for the disease, and this subtype doesn't always show the classic symptoms.
