Earlier this year, a group of researchers published a paper on the remarkable phenomenon of sex reversal in several ...

Understanding the complex network of preceding events and their consequences is the only way to get a clearer picture of the ...

For centuries, some of Europe’s most shocking killings survived only as whispers in parchment and bone, their victims reduced to nameless skulls and half-told chronicles. Now, a new generation of ...

“Residents frustrated at ‘medieval’ cellphone coverage in the Far North,” ran the headline on a New Zealand news website. Communities on the shores of the Pacific Ocean were fed up with constant poor ...

“Our skipper said ‘Have you ever dived this mark? We said, ‘No, because it’s rubbish, there’s nothing there,’” Bournemouth ...

What do medieval monks and volcanic eruptions have in common? According to a team of researchers led by the University of Geneva, quite a bit because chronicles from the 12th and 13th century are ...

Neutron imaging revealed that a medieval pendant from Germany holds fragments of bone, possibly those of a saint. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

A 14th-century astrolabe, one of the important instruments of medieval science (Photo by Hasan Esen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) This is a review I’ve been sitting on for a while, because I’ve ...

TO KINETIC ENERGY IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. CATAPULTS ARE A BATTLE WEAPON DATING BACK TO MEDIEVAL TIMES, AND NOW THAT SAME CONCEPT SHAPES OUR DAY TO DAY LIVES. FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST MARQUISE MEDA ...

What could be one of Norway's oldest shipwrecks has been found on the bottom of a lake near Oslo, during an effort to locate the tons of unexploded ammunition dumped there since World War II. When you ...

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th ...

The Light Ages. By Seb Falk. W.W. Norton; 320 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £20. IN THE 11TH century, nearly 500 years before Leonardo da Vinci drew a similar flying machine, a young monk called Eilmer ...