Today, olive oil is often hailed as helping to protect against disease, but beliefs in its medicinal or even sacred ...

Tiny symbols engraved into ancient Roman drinkware may be more than merely decorative accents. After two years of research, ...

The Invention That Let Humanity Fall Safely The idea of floating safely back to Earth is older than flight itself. Ancie ...

In the hushed light of a museum gallery, Hallie Meredith discovered something intriguing about ancient Roman glasswork hiding ...

A newly identified fossil species, Wadisuchus kassabi, dating to the Campanian period (about 80 million years ago), extends the evolutionary history of Dyrosauridae and underscores Egypt’s Western ...

Desert-adapted corn, beans, and squash – the “Three Sisters” of indigenous agriculture – demonstrate sophisticated farming techniques that maximized limited water resources.

New research shows that the superior colliculus, a primitive brain region, can independently interpret visual information.

Exploring human infancy through the lens of primitive technology reveals surprising insights into biology and survival. From ...

Only one star cluster currently known matches the criteria we would expect for the long-sought Population III stars, three ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

A rare trapdoor spider, Aptostichus ramirezae, discovered in Iran, features a tail-like appendage, a trait thought extinct ...