The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

Chemical traces of opium found in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase shows it had a widespread use. An ancient alabaster vase ...

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread between animals and humans across Eurasia.

A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life, such as Ancient Greek and Old English, by demonstrating ...

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.

The idea of ancient civilisations pioneering orthodontics is irresistible, but archaeology shows their gold dental work ...

Extending roughly 670 km along a south-west to north-east axis, the Aravalli Range stretches from the Delhi Ridge through ...

In ancient Judaism and early Christianity, angels were portrayed as powerful beings who guarded the Garden of Eden, ...

Some things never change -- humor, luckily, is one thing that hasn't changed a great deal, as we can see by the comedies of ...