In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

For years, the archetype of the American gun owner has remained remarkably consistent: largely white, conservative, and rural. But in the fractious political climate following the 2024 presidential ...

Coronagraphs are telescopes equipped with an occulting disk to block out the overwhelming radiation emanated from the visible ...

Following graduation, Nicola was employed at the Japanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA), working on small and large ...

That single vial—an unguentarium recovered from a tomb in ancient Pergamon, once a major medical hub—has now delivered rare, chemical evidence that human feces were used as medicine in the Roman world ...

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Between late 2022 and early 2023, five patients arrived at hospitals in Bangladesh with symptoms that screamed “Nipah virus.” They were feverish, struggling to breathe, and slipping into dangerous ...

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

Travertine is not only a geological wonder but also a popular building material. Its use dates back to ancient Rome, evident ...

Waitomo is a region on New Zealand famous for glittering glowworms that hang from caves. But deep inside a jagged crevice ...

Using high-resolution imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the AI analyzed the bedrock and boulder fields. It processed the same data humans use, but it worked faster, stringing together ...

According to the research, lead levels in human hair from residents of the Greater Salt Lake City region have plummeted by nearly 100-fold since the 1970s. The driving force behind this precipitous ...