Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it ...

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing ...

The study reveals how humans use their eyes to communicate nonverbally. In the future, this line of research could lead to a ...

Scientists have developed a method for storing quantum information in a single dimension, thereby reducing decoherence, using ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

A newly excavated horse cemetery in Germany dates to Roman times.

Archaeologist Julia Wihlborg suggested that the sword and shield of the Hårby Valkyrie may represent a woman who had manly ...

A new documentary explores the tragic final night of the RMS Titanic with the most detailed digital reconstruction of the ship ever created.

The findings shed light on the ancient people who lived in western Hungary, whose identity continues to confound scholars.

Irrational tendencies — including the hot hand, base-rate neglect and sunk cost fallacy — commonly show up in AI systems, ...