Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

The Palimpsest, a writing of Archimedes once thought lost to history, has been revealed through the advanced use of a ...

Caffeine appears to do more than perk you up - it actually helps cells cope with stress and energy shortages, according to ...

A documentary on Ayurveda is trying to capture the movement of convergence between the ancient science and Western medicine ...

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak", Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

The story of the “Pharaoh’s Curse” haunted archaeologists for hundreds of years. It started with the excavation of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 and continued with the mysterious deaths of teams in ...

Sung to the god Marduk, patron deity of the great city, the hymn describes Babylon's flowing rivers, jewelled gates, and ...

Florida has beach towns like Italy has pasta shapes – countless variations, each with devoted fans claiming theirs is the best. But Longboat Key doesn’t need to shout about its charms. It simply ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

Fossils from 7,000-year-old Caribbean reefs show a 75% drop in sharks and a rise in prey fish numbers and size.

The Big Bang may mark an end—not the start—of a previous universe's aeon. Penrose's theory sees the universe as an eternal ...