A fossil misidentified for over a century is now reshaping what scientists know about how life first made the leap from sea ...

The U.S. Postal Service is turning 250. Saturday’s anniversary comes as the agency faces financial challenges.

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

It has grown from serving the 13 colonies to reaching nearly 169 million addresses and employing more than 635,000 people.

The fossil, Palaeocampa anthrax, was first described in 1865. Since then, it shifted labels—from worm to millipede to marine ...

Korea has developed the world's first recombinant protein-based anthrax vaccine, a major step toward self-sufficiency that could also open export markets for the new vaccine with fewer side effects, ...

Testing anthrax drugs in humans isn’t just hard. It’s impossible. You can’t give people anthrax because, well, duh, ethics. But you can’t test it on people who already have anthrax, either ...

Fear of anthrax gripped a nation already rocked by the 9/11 attacks. Seven years later, senior Army microbiologist Bruce Ivins, who had spent much of his career working with anthrax, ...