Researchers have investigated a medicinal clay that was "highly prized" as a therapeutic for various ailments in antiquity.

The discovery of a newly identified species — the oldest saber-toothed animal found and an ancient cousin to mammals — fills ...

Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people yearning for the promise of spring have marked the dawn of the shortest day ...

The specimens belong to an extinct variety of sheep with corkscrew-shaped horns, which naturally grew sideways out of the ...

A new study published on December 18 in Nature offers a way to explain that 150-million-year gap. Computer modeling and ...

A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed several structures, including a villa, buried ...

Tokyo-based startup ispace is preparing for its own mission to the Moon. The Resilience lander is set to carry a small rover, ...

People often say that bullies are "evil," without trying to understand the nuances of their behavior or the need to stop them ...

This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in ...

Researchers dated the grave where the amulet was found to between 230 and 270 AD. This is the earliest evidence of ...