Inside-out solar system, ancient Inuit seafarers in the High Arctic, infant brains categorize objects, and how plastic and smog are impacting insects and the environment.

Archaeologists may have uncovered the long-lost "City of Iron" in the mountains of Uzbekistan.

By simulating thousands of matches and analyzing wear patterns, researchers reconstructed the rules of a long-lost blocking ...

A stunningly preserved Bronze Age sword, unearthed in Germany in 2023, is now revealing the advanced techniques of its creators. New analyses show that the over 3,400-year-old octagonal sword was ...

Old Fort Harrod State Park in Harrodsburg isn’t just another pin on Kentucky’s map of attractions—it’s a time portal ...

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

A long-lost 5,300-year-old artifact from ancient Egypt has just been rediscovered, and it’s far more advanced than anything historians expected.

Over the summer, Italian police chanced upon a roughly 1,600-year-old shipwreck in the Ionian Sea that dates back to Roman ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...

Discover accessory trends—subscribe to the newsletter to explore how magnetic mods, snap-on keyboards, portable batteries, ...

X-ray scans conducted on a 2,000-year-old mummy have revealed that the ancient Egyptian lived with an aching lower back, not unlike many modern humans. Radiologists subjected two mummies dated to ...