Divers have found a medieval metropolis is sitting at the bottom of a mountain lake in Kyrgyzstan. The city, currently on the ...

A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

One of the hottest classes of drugs in the world owes part of its origin story to a weird desert lizard with a venomous bite ...

Researchers at the University of New Mexico have discovered that a common, prehistoric plant distills water to such an ...

If you were a Neanderthal hunter 50,000 years ago, even a small cut could be deadly. Without sterile bandages or antibiotics, ...

Dick Van Dyke, the legendary American actor and comedian who starred in classics such as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang ...

A simple note from the trash reveals proof of the existence of a Nubian king and insight into how a kingdom was run.

Women of Kenya’s Turkana community often walk miles each day in scorching heat to collect water for their animals and ...

Working with 10 mice, they monitored roughly 8,000 neurons in the primary visual cortex of each animal while the mice watched ...

In the figure of Enheduanna, we see a powerful figure of great creativity, whose passionate praise of the goddess of love ...

The newly recovered 1000-year-old page from the Archimedes palimpsest. Credit: Blois, Musée des Beaux-Arts / IRHT-CNRS. For ...

Seventy million years ago, a feathered, flightless dinosaur known as an oviraptor squatted over a carefully arranged ring of ...