Medical emergencies aren't always considerate enough to happen close to hospitals or clinics, and all the professional equipment and trained staff that go along with them.

Being around 115 million years old, this fossil marks the oldest known example of possible dinosaur blood cells – previous finds date back "only" about 80 million years at most.

At least, that's one way of looking at an extraordinary relationship scientists discovered by chance during fieldwork in Ethiopia. Over a series of observations, researchers documented an unusual ...

They could almost have closed their eyes and slipped beyond the boundary between life and death yesterday; so perfect is their preservation.

Over one hundred years ago, a pioneering thinker changed how we understand space and time.  He told us that they're both ...

At 8.15 in the morning of 6 August 1945, the gates to hell opened on the Japanese city of Hiroshima when the US military unleashed the nuclear bomb. As tens of thousands of people died on the ground ...

Of all the strange trappings associated with the near-death experience, none is so familiar as the tunnel into the light.

Over thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most ...