When we think about cutting-edge technology, we usually picture Silicon Valley startups or futuristic labs. But here's the ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the region. Archaeologists have discovered 5,000-year-old rock art in the Sinai ...

The Antikythera Mechanism was a hand-cranked system of interlocking bronze gears designed to model the heavens. Turning the crank revealed the positions of the Sun, Moon, and the five planets visible ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered 430,000-year-old handheld wooden tools, the oldest surviving examples of their kind ...

The cycling of water within Earth's interior regulates plate tectonics, volcanism, ocean volume, and climate stability, ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years. One is a spindly stick about ...

Long before Sputnik launched, something else may have already been orbiting Earth. Known as the Black Knight Satellite, this ...

Jetwing Surf and Safari, the eco-luxury retreat in Pottuvil on Sri Lanka’s magnetic East Coast, has been recognised by global ...

China's Chang'e-6 mission just cracked a big moon mystery: why the far side has barely any volcanoes. By studying rocks from the South Pole-Aitken Basin, scientists found evidence that a massive ...