All 88 internationally recognised constellations have European origins. But First Nations astronomy tells older, beautiful ...

A thirty-year scientific partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people, in the Xingu Indigenous Territory in Mato ...

A study from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute revealed that modern HVAC tech can significantly benefit 19th-century homes.

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

The findings indicate that successive major droughts were crucial in the disintegration of urban centers like Harappa. , ...

A provocative theory is gaining new support today. Scientists suggest atom-sized black holes may move through Earth. These ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

The marsupial lion, which vanished around 40,000 years ago, was a muscular ambush predator about the size of a modern lion.

The robot, equipped with flexible twin arms and vision sensors, can identify, grip, and assemble fragments without harming their delicate surfaces.

However, because the skeletons of domestic cats are identical to those of wildcats, it’s impossible to tell if these ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...