New research suggests that the ancient coffin was repurposed in the tenth or eleventh century to hold the remains of an abbot who'd overseen the London monastery ...
One year after the species was reclassified from “endangered” to “least concern,” green turtles in the western Indian Ocean exemplify that return—and the subtleties a global designation can miss ...
At first, plants below an elephant carcass die. Soil microbes and plants grow back soon after, but only a few select species. Herbivores later come in to munch on the nutrient-rich greens ...
Across much of the animal kingdom, larger species face greater extinction risk. New research reveals that America’s freshwater mussels buck that trend ...
The riverfront opera house is Shanghai's latest cultural statement. It features three performance halls and is designed to be accessible to everyone, not just ticket-holders ...
The sleuths spent two years digging into archives and building 3D models of 19th-century Paris. The location is now ...
Few women worked as professional artists in the 16th century. A new exhibition in Antwerp, Belgium, seeks to restore this ...
When they're rolling, some snakes belonging to the Pseudorabdion genus can reach top speeds of 3.8 to 8.3 miles per hour, according to a new study ...
White dwarf stars are too far from Earth to be observed directly. So, scientists reconstructed how they'd look to human eyes ...
Experts say that an oft-circulated anecdote about two royal astronomers drunkenly failing to foresee an eclipse thousands of ...
Some residents of the Peaks District in the 13th century may have experienced worse lead pollution than city-dwellers during ...
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