My ideal vacation used to be relaxing on a warm, sandy beach. Then I went to Iceland, and I'm now adding more cold-weather ...

Ten years ago, fishermen in Taiwan dredged a jawbone from the seafloor. Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.

One of Scotland's mountain ski resorts is to keep artificially producing snow until May. Andy Meldrum, managing director of ...

In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? I n March 2009, ...

The discovery of archaic human jawbone shatters assumptions about the geographic limits of the Denisova hominin ...

Each theory faced its own criticism ... His friend fell into an icy-cold brook two days before he was diagnosed—“Perhaps the shock triggered the disease?” Another woman owned a failing ...

This is one reason people love birds: A baseball team in Maryland can be named for a species that winters in Nicaragua ... Paothong showed up on a frigidly cold Wyoming morning before the birds ...

A ripe fishy odor saturated the cold wind, and whickering moans ... stocks depleted in the decades following World War II. One theory argues that the loss of these whales ultimately forced ...