Lake Poopó, once Bolivia’s second-largest lake, dried out at the end of 2015 after years of declining water levels. Drought and El Niño accelerated the collapse, while later research identified river ...

Ancient tombstones found in Egypt reveal a startling blend of Greek and Egyptian gods buried beneath Nile Delta sands.

The H.L. Hunley’s eight crew members were found still seated at their stations after the submarine sank, leaving researchers ...

China’s reported orbital weapon test revived a Cold War nightmare, and exposed a missile-defense gap the U.S. may struggle to close before deployment.

A new simulation suggests the Milky Way could be hiding a vast population of invisible black holes waiting to be found.

The opening of Casimir IV Jagiellon’s tomb in 1973 led to 15 deaths. Scientists later linked the cases to fungal spores inside the crypt.

A new species of eyeless cavefish has been identified beneath Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, where researchers studying the underground ecosystem discovered a fish unlike any previously known. Named ...

A 476,000-year-old wooden structure found at Kalambo Falls shows ancient hominins shaped and joined wood long before Homo sapiens appeared. For decades, the archaeological record of early humans has ...

New DNA research reveals human, microbial, plant and animal traces on the Shroud of Turin, offering new insights into its biological history. The linen cloth, measuring about 14 feet (4.4 meters), ...

A ghostly glow has haunted sailors for centuries. Now satellites and forgotten ship logs reveal where milky seas appear, how vast they become, and the troubling warning they may carry. Sailors have ...

The centuries-old order links cloth, livestock and a little-known Nubian ruler in what researchers call compelling evidence of his reign. The scrap of paper was small enough to fit in a hand and had ...

The discovery shows that deep subsurface environments can host complex biological communities far from the surface. The researchers studied water extracted from gas wells and identified hundreds of ...