Science

14:00, 06/09/2018

A team of U.S. and Peruvian researchers made new discoveries recently in Peru’s Chavin de Huantar archaeological site including three underground galleries, ceramic pieces and human remains. The ...

15:47, 01/09/2018

Boulders known as “hunger stones” are reappearing in the Elbe River, due to this summer’s drought in Central Europe. The low water levels in the river that begins in the Czech Republ ...

10:40, 24/08/2018

CAIRO—For thousands of years beneath Egypt’s desert sands a solidified whitish substance sat in a broken jar. Scientists now say it’s “probably the most ancient archaeological solid ...

10:05, 21/08/2018

The body of Hambo Lama Itighelov, who was a spiritual leader of Russian Buddhists from 1911 to 1927, was first exhumed from the grave in 1955, at the Lama’s request. When after the third exhumat ...

14:05, 11/08/2018

Ancient remains of three individuals from as far back as 7,000 years ago were discovered in Mexico. Archaeologists at a Mexico City news conference revealed that the remains of ancestors of the Mayan ...

16:01, 10/08/2018

CT scans have revealed the inner contents of an Egyptian mummy to be that of a stillborn human baby, not as the mummified hawk it was once believed to be. Bioarchaeologist Andrew Nelson, from Canada&# ...

20:04, 02/08/2018

WASHINGTON—The Hope Diamond, a rare blue diamond that is one of the world’s most famous jewels, has had a complicated history, passing through the hands of monarchs and bankers and heiresses and ...

09:44, 26/07/2018

ATHENS—Greek archaeologists have discovered a virtually intact grave of an ancient noblewoman buried with her golden jewelry at a Roman burial monument in the island of Sikinos. Her name, according to ...

15:36, 24/07/2018

Ancient technology used by craftsmen 2,000 years ago to apply thin films of metal onto their statues surpassed modern standards for producing DVDs, solar cells, and electronic devices. It makes you wo ...

10:25, 20/07/2018

One of the most exciting parts of a renovation project is the thrill of what you might uncover. While home remodeling shows would lead you to believe there are sparkling pine floorboards underneath ev ...

14:18, 10/07/2018

More than a century ago, a device now known as the Antikythera mechanism was found near a Roman shipwreck from the 1st century B.C. It could calculate astronomical changes with precision. It has baffl ...

14:01, 07/07/2018

The oldest and largest pyramid in Egypt, the Great Pyramid in Giza, has a 100-foot-long void inside. Archaeologists first announced the possible existence of this void about two years ago, but only co ...

03:49, 02/07/2018

Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is a 12,000-year-old megalithic monument complex, the origins of which have stumped archaeologists since its discovery about 20 years ago. It has caused archaeologists to rethin ...

16:15, 25/06/2018

A new species of dinosaur has been discovered in Mexico by paleontologists at the acclaimed Desert Museum. The creature lived 85 million years ago, making it the oldest dinosaur to have inhabited the ...

17:25, 22/06/2018

Egypt is full of mystery and many believe that the conclusions we’ve made about the ancient Egyptian civilization are far from the truth. Here is a 1,200 ton unfinished obelisk that has everyone ...

15:16, 14/06/2018

Scientists have discovered what could be the oldest animal footprint fossils ever found. The tracks were found in southern China’s Yangtze Gorges and date back up to 551 million years ago. This is pot ...

07:58, 12/06/2018

A tiny sculpture depicting the likely head of a royal figure from more than 2,800 years ago was recently unearthed. The head, according to Fox News, might be of a king. “The color of the face is ...

05:56, 07/06/2018

PARIS—The 30 ft skeleton of a unidentified type of dinosaur, believed to be that of a new species, fetched more than $2.3 million at an auction staged on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris o ...

18:07, 03/09/2018

People who spoke of thoughts influencing a person’s health were once ridiculed. But the discovery of the placebo effect helped change that. Now it’s commonly accepted that some such connec ...

14:22, 27/08/2018

Robert Jahn, who died at the age of 87 on Nov. 15, spent his life reuniting the head and the heart in modern science. Like some of the brightest minds of Western science, such as Albert Einstein, Isaa ...

16:06, 01/08/2018

BERLIN—A team of international scientists observing a star in the Milky Way have for the first time confirmed Einstein’s predictions of what happens to the motion of a star passing close to a su ...

17:13, 23/07/2018

Scandinavian mythology claims the Kraken swallowed up whales and devoured ships. It has been described as a huge version of an octopus or squid. Legends have even claimed the terrifying sea creature m ...

15:37, 21/07/2018

Stephanie Arnold was already a mother to two young girls, but when she became pregnant with her third child, she had a bad feeling. It wasn’t pregnancy jitters, it wasn’t fear of the unkno ...

10:43, 11/07/2018

Prestigious, peer-reviewed scientific journals and major scientific organizations, such as the American Psychological Association, stand as guards at the gates of Science. They decide what information ...

15:02, 04/07/2018

When he was 19 years old, Jeffrey C. attempted suicide after finding out his girlfriend was cheating on him with his best friend. After he swallowed a lot of pills, his mother realized what had happen ...

07:51, 28/06/2018

Tricia Barker was depressed. She was 21 years old, in college studying English, unsure what career would follow, and generally feeling that life was hopeless and painful. She tried to take her own lif ...

16:45, 19/06/2018

Over the last 10 years, scientists have been observing bright infrared light and flares coming from the location of two colliding galaxies. In a newly published study, scientists say that from their m ...

08:41, 16/06/2018

Neuroscientist Greg Gage performed an experiment showing plants can count and “think” during a TED Talk published this month. This is just one piece in a larger puzzle starting to show tha ...

16:48, 15/06/2018

Over the past 15 years or so, several giant gel balls have been found by divers off the coast of Norway. The balls, about 3 feet (1 meter) wide, remain a mystery to scientists. But the number of ball ...

16:16, 07/09/2018

Not all sharks feed only on meat—at least one shark species also feeds on seagrass. Scientists have confirmed that one of the most common sharks in the world is an omnivore. The bonnethead shark, a re ...

16:46, 05/09/2018

Teenagers who were conceived through assisted reproductive technologies, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), may be six times more likely to have hypertension compared to those who were conceived ...

14:22, 30/08/2018

Waking from a weightless sleep to the words “help find the air leak” might sound like an astronaut’s worst nightmare. But according to NASA, the air leak, discovered as the astronaut ...

17:21, 29/08/2018

Neuroscientists have discovered a new type of brain cell in a region of the human brain thought to be responsible for human consciousness. The researchers are speculating that the brain cell may be un ...

09:56, 28/08/2018

A huge 14-foot-long squid washed ashore in Wellington, New Zealand, according to media reports. The Ocean Hunter Spearfishing & Freediving Specialists said on Aug. 25 that three brothers Dan, Jack ...

17:08, 25/08/2018

A European satellite, which will be the first to directly measure wind speeds and directions around the world, has taken off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on board a Vega rocket. The lift ...

15:00, 21/08/2018

SEATTLE—The space company of billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen on Aug. 20 unveiled details of medium-lift rockets and a reusable space cargo plane it is developing, injecting more competitio ...

13:54, 20/08/2018

Officials with International Bird Rescue said staff members are treating more hungry and exhausted young Common Murres at the rescue’s Fairfield wildlife hospital this summer. More than 100 murr ...

15:41, 18/08/2018

NASA says a fireball that streaked across the US South East was traveling about 53,700 miles per hour (86,422 kilometres per hour) when it lit up the night over Alabama. The Meteoroid Environment Offi ...

17:08, 17/08/2018

Scientists in Florida are on the cusp of developing promising methods to control toxic algae blooms like the “red tide” that has been killing marine life along a 150-mile stretch of the Gu ...

16:59, 16/08/2018

A team of South Korean researchers has developed a technology for a soft actuator which moves and accordingly changes its color like an actual body of an organism. The research team of Seoul National ...

21:05, 15/08/2018

NASA astronauts who will be riding the SpaceX Dragon discussed the challenges they’ve faced and what they’re looking forward to while speaking at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Cali ...

16:00, 14/08/2018

NASA launched a space probe early Sunday that will go closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before, the agency announced. The craft will endure extreme heat while zooming through the solar corona to s ...

18:20, 13/08/2018

In a suburban Minneapolis laboratory, a tiny company that has never turned a profit is poised to beat the world’s biggest agriculture firms to market with the next potential breakthrough in gene ...

15:05, 09/08/2018

Scientists using a radio-telescope array have spotted a gigantic roaming cosmic body with an abnormally strong magnetic field. The object is one of five supposed brown dwarfs located by the Very Large ...

17:46, 08/08/2018

The Atlantic hurricane season may have gotten off to an early start this year, but it’ll probably end with a whimper—at least when it comes to the total number of storms. Twelve named storms are likel ...

16:30, 06/08/2018

NASA is preparing to send a probe closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft has ventured, enduring wicked heat while zooming through the solar corona to study this outermost part of the stellar atmo ...

16:15, 04/08/2018

NASA on Friday named nine astronauts for the first manned space launches from U.S. soil since the space shuttle program ended in 2011. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s announc ...

14:06, 30/07/2018

LONDON/SYDNEY—A blood moon will dominate the sky across much of the world on Friday night when the earth’s natural satellite moves into the shadow of our planet for the longest lunar eclipse of ...

10:24, 27/07/2018

The moon will transform into a blood red hue this Friday night, July 27, during the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century. People around the world, except in North America, will be able to catch a ...