That’s exactly what happened to an unfortunate graduate student named Donald R. Currey back in the summer of 1964, who ended up responsible for the demise of Prometheus, a bristlecone pine that stood ...

The story of Prometheus, the pine tree felled in 1964, marked a turning point in the conservation of ancient trees.

The opening moments of Prometheus present a visually breathtaking but puzzling prologue. Viewers witness a lone Engineer on what appears to be a primordial Earth, positioned beside a thundering ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Merck & Co.’s $10.8 billion acquisition of Prometheus Biosciences Inc., which it announced Sunday, is a strategic positive that will help the drug company diversify its portfolio and reduce the risk ...