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Scientists with the Schmidt Ocean Institute believe the reefs are thousands of years old.

Chromhidrosis is a disorder of the sweat glands that manifests with colored sweat on the face, in the underarms, or on the areola of the breasts.

Researchers at Columbia University studied data from alcohol-related and substance-related hospital visits in New York State over 20 years.

Scientists started to realize all these hominins weren’t our direct ancestors. Instead, they were more like our cousins: lineages that split off from a common source and headed in different directions

Among the winners was Jan Zalasiewicz of Poland who earned the chemistry and geology prize for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.

Researchers found a link between sedentary lifestyles and chronic illnesses that are linked with increased dementia risk.

Boogie boarders caught some waves in bioluminescence at Huntington Beach, Calif., on Sept. 5.

The balloon came equipped with a GoPro camera to record the journey, as well as some snacks — but not for eating on the way.

The children from the Taft Houses NYCHA complex sent a balloon into the atmosphere and caught the whole journey on GoPro video.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says that he’s calculated where life in plastic exists.

Every year on August 8, an astrological event called the Lion’s Gate Portal “opens” in the sky.

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft is back in contact again, after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence.

California Live’s Amber Pfister has some hand-on science fun at the Fleet Science Center in San Diego with her daughter Lyla.

Humans have etched their impact on Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that scientists says a new geologic epoch began then. Called the Anthropocene — and derived from the Greek terms for “human” and “new” — this epoch started sometime between 1950 and 1954. While there is evidence worldwide that captures the impact...

A 40-year-old man whose legs are paralyzed can now climbs and walk following implants in his brain and spinal cord that pair with external devices.

Scientists announced the birth of a cloned Przewalski’s horse, born from a cell line frozen for 40 years at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Biodiversity Bank’s Frozen Zoo.

Sauropods, ahoy: The California Academy of Sciences will go way, way back, all to take a closer look at the long-of-neck, long-of-tail giants.

Scientists have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab.