Researchers are still figuring out how to enable athletes in the face-first Olympic sled race to go even faster. By Sabrina Imbler Many Winter Olympic sports have ancient origins, dating to times when ...

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Scientists have discovered a new tissue engineering concept. The science of growing human cells to use in medical treatments is still very young. But scientists have been working hard to come up with ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have uncovered the remains of a young man who lived around 6,000 years ago and survived a dangerous encounter with a lion. The discovery sheds light on prehistoric human ...

SANTA CRUZ — The Seymour Marine Discovery Center is seeking donations to rebuild and remount the iconic 87-foot-long whale skeleton, Ms. Blue, which was digitally recreated by a high-profile Hollywood ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s ...