A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, between 66 and 47.8 million years ago, rainfall across mid-latitude regions ...

Something quietly remarkable is happening in kitchens around the world. Foods that nourished ancient civilizations thousands of years ago are showing up in modern grocery aisles, restaurant menus, and ...

A toxic plant linked to 60,000-year-old arrows changes what we know about early humans. The discovery reveals unexpected ...

Freeze-drying is a case in point—a technology so fundamental to modern medicine that its absence would have rewritten the twentieth century, yet so invisible that few know its name or its makers.

In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it may also help fight superbugs.

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...

Archeologists found evidence that ancient Romans may have used a medical treatment involving perfume... and human feces.

See ancient Roman and Greek art at the stunning Getty Villa or take the little ones to the La Brea Tar Pits for a bit of ...

“Our goal was to build a clear mathematical bridge between abstract algebra and the experience of listening to music,” said study co-author Olga Ibragimova. “When we think of melodies as shapes we can ...

Australian researchers found that native Old Man Saltbush can boost protein and fiber in pasta while reducing added salt.

Researchers found a tiny bottle from ancient Rome that contained fecal residue and traces of aromatics, offering evidence ...