The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.

Ali Raza, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, helped organize the sixth Summer School on Speleothem ...

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Archaeologists in northern Spain have uncovered a remarkable artifact that bridges 450 million years of history: a trilobite fossil deliberately modified and used as an amulet during the Roman Empire.

Lasers are now helping scientists peer inside some of the world’s most fragile scientific treasures without ever opening them. Researchers have developed a laser-based scanning technique that can ...

Rows of preserved specimen jars from Charles Darwin's iconic Galapagos voyage have sat, unopened, in the archives of London's Natural History Museum (NHM) for 200 years. Now, lasers have given us an ...

I was strolling down Main Street, minding my own business, when I spotted a shop that stopped me cold, polished agates gleaming in the window like they were up to something. Little did I know, this ...