A 3,000-Ton Locomotive Was Loose, Unstoppable, and Filled with Toxic Cargo

The real-life story of how railroad veterans, first responders, and sheer nerve prevented an unimaginable catastrophe.

An Ancient Roman Wall Has Emerged in Switzerland. It's an Archaeological Sensation.

The Romans knew their way around Europe. They also knew how to build with a view. A 2,000-year-old stone wall unearthed in a ...

Some of Our Cells Are Defying Death. Scientists Just Discovered How.

Cells that are about to die send a signal to an executioner protein, but sometimes, those cells can fight back and regenerate ...

Workers Discovered 1,400-Year-Old Royal Remains on the Grounds of a Nuclear Power Station

The power station has actually yielded quite a few archaeological discoveries spanning numerous historical eras.

Some of China’s Biggest Cities Exist In the Shadow of Plastic Clouds, Scientists Say

A new study analyzed atmospheric concentrations of microplastics and nanoplastics, and found that there are likely two to ...

Scientists Discovered a Complex Maya City Buried Deep in the Jungle

Tucked some 37 miles deep in the jungle, a research team—led by Ivan Ṡprajc, a professor of archaeology from Slovenia who has directed work on the Yucatan Peninsula since 1996—took info from the ...

Why Were These 1,000-Year-Old Bodies Buried at a 5,000-Year-Old Monument?

A DNA analysis of human remains found that two medieval men were buried in a peculiar position at a ritualistic site from the ...

Scientists Knitted a Satellite and Sent It to Space

Using a modified, off-the-shelf machine designed for knitting sweaters, engineers finally launched the U.K. satellite CarbSAR ...