A well-known Maya stone carving known as Altar Q, located at the site of Copán in Honduras, may use hand signs to represent ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

The juvenile pachycephalosaurs, which predates the previous oldest dome-headed dinosaur by 15 million years, reveals more ...

A new NASA study suggests that solar activity will remain high or rise further in the coming decades, contradicting previous ...

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

A study of human placentas suggests that urban air pollution may push the organ's resident immune cells into an inflammatory state.

The Pallas’s cat is just one of several wildcats spotted in Arunachal Pradesh, which also supports snow leopards, common ...

A discovery in Romania shows the remains of an elite family's treasures from the Roman era that were scorched in a fire.

Less than 400 angle-stemmed myrtle specimens remain in the wild in Australia. Scientists are working on ways to preserve the ...

But where was Boudica (also spelled Boudicca, Boadicea or Boudecia) buried? Over the years, several locations were said to ...