Future Arctic winter sea ice is likely to shrink by around 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) more than ...

Population models suggest the Kikai-Akahoya eruption brought severe regional decline alongside continued growth on some ...

The left scapula of Shanidar A. (University of Cambridge) When the end came, it must have been very painful. In a moment of ...

The wreck was found with relatively intact cargo on the seabed off the coast of Türkiye and is believed to be between 4,400 ...

An ancient crocodile fossil found in the same limestone used to build the Great Sphinx has gotten a new identity.

Researchers have revealed the climate that some of the first people in North America experienced around 23,000 years ago, ...

Bishops preached against the charms, but they became a tangible piece of faith.

To the ancient Romans, epilepsy was a contagious disease caused by evil spirits or demonic possession, and there was only one ...

New research reveals how octopuses and other cephalopods developed some of the most complex nervous systems in the animal ...

Wooden objects usually decompose quickly, but periodic flooding and minerals in the water helped preserve those at a site ...

Traces of lead could make Herculaneum scrolls readable by X-ray, and a handheld scanner can pick out which ones carry it.

Non-destructive scanning of fragile scrolls will provide further breakthroughs in our knowledge of the classical world ...