The pro football standout focuses on his vision while advocating for others living with T1D.

Friction normally needs two surfaces rubbing together. Physicists just proved light can do the job all by itself.

He says consciousness surviving human death is the most “plausible” explanation.

A 2023 simulation finally settled a debate that began when the artifact surfaced in 1898.

The monolithic rocks of Nabta Playa were used to guide travelers and forecast rain.

A new genomic atlas gives researchers a cheat sheet for steering stem cells toward curing disease.

For 1,700 years, no one knew where the First Council of Nicaea actually took place. The answer may have been sitting in a lake in Turkey.

It pays to be curious.

A four-carbon sugar discovered 26,000 light-years away may explain how DNA's backbone arrived on Earth.

Ulfberht blades were pure steel and essentially unbreakable, both a devastating weapon and a symbol of power.

The tombs’ rich artifacts make them exceptional in the Mediterranean region’s archaeological history.

A Cold War-era law lets federal agencies suppress any patent they want—and no one can tell you why.

The H.S. Hunley crew corpses stumped scientists for 17 years. Researchers just cracked the case.

Lost crowns, funeral scepters, and medieval coins from the 1200s and 1400s resurfaced in Poland and Lithuania, rewriting what we know about Central European royalty.

The Nebra Sky Disk fuses Egyptian sun gods, Greek astronomy, and Norse myth into one baffling Bronze Age artifact.

The 1628 Vasa disaster killed 30 and baffled engineers—until divers pulled the answer from the mud centuries later.

Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo flashes up to nine hours a night, 160 nights a year. A new model predicts strikes three months in advance.

A German UC-30 shipwreck is leaking TNT, one of many shipwrecks corroding in the ocean, but microbes are breaking down the hazardous materials.

In 1858, arsenic mistaken for sugar filler turned a popular candy into a fatal mistake. It lead to major changes in food and drug safety.

Generations of monks once lived in this monastic complex, and by the fifth century, it was also a hub of Coptic art and culture.