The world’s first lock and key system was invented in ancient Egypt around 4000 BCE. Made of wood, it used simple pins and ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

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

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

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

The ancient Romans got the hang of how to use volcanic ash. They used it as an ingredient in their concrete, and the result ...

Nina Beguš remembers being at an event 10 years ago where a group of engineers showcased new robots that could recognize ...

Loren E. Babcock, The Ohio State University, introduces research on Cladoselache, a puzzling ancient shark-like fish ...

Exploring ancient ruins is like stepping into a time machine. Some of these ruins make you wonder how in the world they were ...

Study finds Earth's ancient atmosphere may have produced essential sulfur biomolecules like cysteine, challenging theories on ...

The subject board is usually a two- or four-layer circuit board with 12/12 lines and spaces, and often is almost destroyed by whatever catastrophic failure occurred. The application is typically an ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...