Scientists in Kyoto found that fresh grapes rarely host the yeast needed for wine fermentation, but raisins do. They soaked ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit ...

Sixteen dugout canoes, some older than Egypt’s pyramids, have been identified beneath a Wisconsin lake, turning a quiet ...

One easy way to make a very accurate clock is with a WiFi-enabled microcontroller like an ESP32 and a display: set up NTP, ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

Rocks have been found to hold many traces of Earth's ancient history, but usually geologists have to seek them out. Every ...

New research reveals that ancient Mars once hosted vast river drainage systems comparable in scale to some of Earth’s major ...

From intricate windcatchers to innovative air channels, ancient engineers mastered natural cooling thousands of years before electricity. This exploration debunks misconceptions about ancient “air ...

It may sound like a miracle, but new research suggests that people in ancient times could have made wine simply by soaking ...

A new device cuts down the time it takes to harvest water from the atmosphere from days to minutes, MIT researchers say.