A team of archaeologists believes that three impressively sized circular ditch structures from around 4500 B.C.E.—which the ...

In what was one of the greatest decoration flexes in ancient Roman design, a wealthy resident of Iuvavum—now modern-day ...

Geochemical reactions from thawing permafrost are leaching toxic metals into rivers throughout the Brooks Range in northern ...

Forget the badlands and deserts. Some of the world’s most important fossil discoveries are hiding in New Jersey’s suburbs.

Ice generates electricity as a response to stress when it bends. Experiments with pure and saline ice found that with enough ...

This process—the team dubs it “xenoparous,” meaning that an organism gives birth to another species as part of its life cycle ...

Over the years, we’ve talked plenty about the rising cost of energy and the many things you can do about it. Let’s revisit ...

For most of history, the unseen darkness was part of ordinary life. For example, families in medieval Europe slept in two ...

On November 24, 1971, a man who called himself Dan Cooper (later misreported as D.B.) hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 after boarding in Portland, Oregon with a briefcase that supposedly held a ...

Both inverter and standard generators run on fossil fuels and emit carbon monoxide (CO) fumes in their exhaust and must be operated outside, at least 10 to 20 feet from the house and away from any ...

For years, the strange phenomenon of precognition –an unwavering “gut feeling” that something will happen in the future–has puzzled scientists. The eerie concept may sound far-fetched, but many ...

Archaeologists unearthed a 16-ton treasure-filled tomb in the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, untouched by grave robbers ...