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 ...

16:42, 04/09/2018

For many people coincidences are all good: if you wait long enough, you can probably find a positive outcome. Here we look at coincidences that from the beginning seem to promise a great outcome but t ...

16:41, 31/08/2018

Can plants make important life decisions? A new study by U.K. scientists suggests they can, showing that plants have cells that function like a “brain” to help them decide when to germinate. The scien ...

10:37, 23/08/2018

In the wee hours of the morning on July 28, 1976, the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century and the third greatest in recorded history shook Tangshan, China. Approximately one-fifth of the city per ...

19:15, 07/08/2018

A new radio telescope in Canada recently captured a strange signal from deep space. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, is located in British Columbia and monitors for signal ...

13:17, 31/07/2018

Using a radar instrument on an orbiting spacecraft, scientists have spotted what they said on Wednesday appears to be a sizable salt-laden lake under ice on the southern polar plain of Mars, a body of ...

10:20, 28/07/2018

Xue-Mei was an active member of the Chinese Communist Party, her mind deeply rooted in Marxism. “I was a die-hard atheist,” she said, in a post on the Near-Death Experience Research Founda ...

18:35, 25/07/2018

From a very young age, Purnima would fully describe the process for manufacturing incense, — something a girl her age and not in the incense business wouldn’t have any knowledge about that ...

15:38, 09/07/2018

Ubiquitous throughout ancient philosophy is the idea that the body has a system of channels along which energy flows. This energy affects health and can exert power—it can be used to deal blows in mar ...

14:32, 06/07/2018

A 37-mile (60 km) crack appeared in the ground in Ethiopia in recent years, and scientists say it could be the location of the world’s next new ocean. Under the continent of Africa are two separ ...

16:29, 30/06/2018

A medical doctor from Taiwan had always considered himself very sensible and prudent in his work and everyday life. As he grew older, he began to treat his minor aches and pains with many safe and eff ...

14:02, 27/06/2018

The epic voyage of the Cassini spaceship might have ended nine months ago, but stunning images of its trek to Saturn are still being processed by NASA. A stunning composite image of Saturn’s icy moon ...

16:30, 21/06/2018

Babies are full of surprises, even when they are still in the mother’s womb. If you don’t believe this, check out the video. Lucy Bearley and Stuart Barrett are expecting their first child, according ...

15:52, 20/06/2018

A Japanese spacecraft has gotten its first clear view of Ryugu, an oddly-shaped asteroid that many say looks like a dango dumpling. Hayabusa2, the Japanese spacecraft, is set to arrive on the asteroid ...

06:47, 18/06/2018

Scientists say that they have found proof of water on the moon—by looking in the desert in northwest Africa. A mineral that requires the presence of water to form was discovered in a lunar meteorite b ...

08:52, 13/06/2018

Astronomers have discovered a peculiar neutron star hanging out by itself. The star, E0102, is located 200,000 light years from Earth. Neutron stars are the dense core of stars that have collapsed and ...

07:53, 12/06/2018

Two years ago, NASA made the announcement that the surface of Mars featured running water systems. This observation was based on the appearance of seasonal flows, called “recurrent slope lineae,” ...

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 ...