The Dead Tell a Tale China Doesn’t Care to Listen To
By EDWARD WONG
The Tarim mummies have become protagonists in a political dispute over who should control the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
An intact skeleton of a woolly mammoth that is on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
A new report suggests that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated from DNA extracted from clumps of the animal’s hair.
A monument in Turkey may be the first written evidence that the people in the region held to the religious concept of the soul apart from the body.
The Tarim mummies have become protagonists in a political dispute over who should control the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
Astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station to do repair work, but lost a bag of tools they had taken along.
The space shuttle Endeavour is headed to the International Space Station. Read about the crew of STS-126.
A deadly cancer has preyed on the Tasmanian devil, causing it to be listed as endangered, and scientists have begun an experimental inoculation program.
Children between the ages of 1 and 3 months with slight fevers fall into a gray zone of treatment guidelines.
With the recent violence in eastern Congo, there are no trained rangers now to protect the mountain gorillas in the region.
In a profession where anxiety is often the starting point of a doctor-patient relationship, the standard patient questionnaire will never go deep enough.
The mountain pine beetle, an insect pest, is destroying massive swaths of American lodgepole pine.
While the U.S. has the world's fastest supercomputers, it faces increased pressure from countries like India and China.
Are there problems with the way researchers have been using split-second reactions on a computer test to diagnose an epidemic of racial bias?
From New Mexico to British Columbia, an infestation of mountain pine beetles is turning a blanket of green forest into a blanket of rust red.
Researchers have uncovered the oldest molecular genetic evidence of a nuclear family ever obtained.