When water slides on a surface, it can pick up an electric charge—and that can have consequences for metals exposed to the elements.

A Danube shipwreck may have unintentionally rewritten the outcome of a 3rd-century B.C.E. Iron Age war.

Digital scans of the badly eroded tracks reveal how fast the most famous apex predator was walking—and why.

Experts say the 11,500-year-old symbols may be drawings of an ancient domed building.

A dark-room experiment reveals why blue blurs the world, and why darker eyes handle it better.

Could that mean time travel is technically possible?

The North Sea swallowed the medieval town of Shipden, and a 19th-century blast may have erased the rest.

A new study replicated the heat and pressure conditions of Western Australia’s vast iron-ore deposits to produce natural hydrogen gas.

There are dozens of types of exotic ice, but this one could help solve an outstanding astrophysics mystery in the outer solar system.

Ice-flow models rule out natural transport, leaving prehistoric engineers as the only ones who could do it.

Paul Kammerer was one of the premier biologists of his generation. But his ideas made him some enemies.

Organisms that reach “peak fitness” still keep evolving, even with no external pressures pushing them towards survival.

In discovering three wrecks from a short-lived settlement than pre-dated Jamestown, archaeologists may have found a better method of finding lost ships.

With millions spread throughout 27 U.S. states, abandoned oil and gas wells are continually leaking methane, one of the very worst greenhouse gasses.

The largest ancient Roman wall mosaic ever discovered portrays a mysterious port city across 52 feet of ancient stone.

NASA wanted deep-space snacks, so a lab delivered 3D-printed cookies made from water bottles.

The Iron Age tunnel complex located in Austria revealed a history of salt mining that dates back 7,300 years.

A cache of 142 clay beads from Natufian sites in Israel preserved 50 fingerprints—many belonging to children—pushing the origins of ornament-making back thousands of years.

“It will make us younger in every way imaginable—make us look, feel, and behave like we’re 25 again,” he claims.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is a global necessity, bringing heat, carbon, and nutrients from the tropics to the Arctic Circle.