Kristel Tjandra

A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

Scientists found that healthy women can carry genetic changes in their breast cells that are thought to be characteristic of invasive breast cancer.

Life expectancy prediction using data collected over four decades reveals southern right whales' exceptionally long lives — far longer than scientists previously thought.

Height loss could be an early sign of a more serious health condition.

Archaeologists have found the skeletons of a man and a woman, along with their valuables, in a room in Pompeii.

More than 1,500 medieval silver coins were unearthed in the Black Forest region of Germany.

Microbiologist Karin Hjort discusses what heteroresistance is and how it could change the way we treat bacterial infections.

Bacteria can mutate surprisingly fast to resist antibiotics.

Microbiologists are on a quest to unravel a rare phenomenon involved in antibiotic resistance and how it may change our understanding of infections.

The sea surface temperature around the Great Barrier Reef this year is the hottest it has ever been in 400 years, posing huge threats to the coral reef ecosystem in the area.

Scientists found three distinct great-white-shark populations that congregate in different oceans and do not interbreed. Their separation may have implications for conservation.

The mummy was well preserved with an expensive embalming material. Her organs were still intact, showing an unusual mummification technique, a CT scan revealed.

The excavation team in Turkey found a small, clay tablet that detailed a large furniture purchase. Experts said the finding may provide clues to the area's socioeconomic condition in the Late Bronze period.

Here's how our brains construct color in our environment.

As Earth's orbit intersects with those of two comets this month, stargazers will have a chance to view spectacular double meteor showers.

Astronomers are proposing a new, more quantitative definition of what makes a planet. The new definition looks more directly at the object's mass — but it would still leave Pluto out of the running.

An early screening test for endometrial cancer may be missing the disease in many Black patients.

Honey owes its long shelf-life to its makers, but it doesn't always last forever.

Scientists used thousands of years of climate data to show that El Niño Southern Oscillations can be predicted more than two years in advance.

Scientists overcame cancer drug resistance in a new proof-of-concept study.

A 51,000-year-old painting in the Sulawesi cave "art gallery" is the oldest evidence of narrative rock art ever discovered.

Scientists found that contaminated milking equipment can harbor the H5N1 virus for more than an hour, increasing the risk of dairy farmers getting infected.

Scientists discovered the oldest known wine in liquid form inside a Roman-era tomb in Spain.

The more than 30 tombs include family burials, such as children buried with their parents, in a hillside in Aswan, Egypt.

The world's oldest termite mounds have been collecting carbon from the atmosphere for thousands of years.