A man who died in Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was carrying a medical kit with him, new scans ...

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Archaeologists have excavated the remains of a dingo that was buried by ancestors of the Australian Aboriginal Barkindji ...

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A newfound species of long-necked dinosaur from Thailand lived up to 120 million years ago, and it's the largest known of its ...

A striking new image of the Whirlpool Galaxy is helping astronomers solve one of the biggest mysteries in star formation.

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

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Our team — which includes archaeologists from Macquarie University, France's HiSoMA research unit, and the Polish Academy of ...

Don Juan Pond is a mysterious lake in Antarctica that contains so much calcium chloride, it doesn't freeze in subzero ...

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