The first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...

Deep in the woods of Georgia, we discovered an abandoned home frozen in time. Strange noises, collapsing chimneys, and old ...

In a new video, two V&A curators unbox a collection of 19th-century objects common in Victorian mourning traditions.

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

Many skyscrapers contain such devices, called tuned mass dampers, for the same purpose, but the Taipei 101 pendulum is ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

No matter how much we dig, it seems there's always something new to discover. Quite literally... A 6th-century Byzantine bucket, an ancient Egyptian royal tomb and a sanctuary dedicated to the ...

Abstract: We propose a microfluidic system that enables quantitative nano-artifacts exposure to single cells. Unlike a conventional cell analysis based on pipetting, our system allows precise control ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress ...