Where will the failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 land when it crashes back to Earth in the coming week? Most major cities ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing ...

The study reveals how humans use their eyes to communicate nonverbally. In the future, this line of research could lead to a ...

The lower incidence of dementia seen in adults who received the shingles vaccine is likely not just a correlation, scientists ...

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study ...

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...

To build a more energy-efficient AI chip, the scientists propose using conducting polymer thin films. These are (so far) an underused aspect of neuromorphic computing; this is a computer system that ...

A newly excavated horse cemetery in Germany dates to Roman times.

Maya blue, discovered by modern researchers in 1931, is not an easy pigment to make. Echoing the color of an azure sky, the indelible pigment was used to accentuate everything from ceramics to human ...

Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly ...

A new documentary explores the tragic final night of the RMS Titanic with the most detailed digital reconstruction of the ship ever created.