Pilate’s name had been transliterated from Latin to Greek, which was not uncommon for the time—but the specific spelling was.

Electrical activity that was fine-tuned in waking brains grew more chaotic under anesthesia.

The 6,500-year-old site, located in the present-day Czech Republic, was built to follow the solar and lunar calendars.

He bought the taxidermied head at an antique store for $70. It just sold for $85,000.

Montbellant Hill was first home to a first-century B.C. city before Roman and medieval structures were built on top of it in the ensuing centuries.

Indefinite causal order let physicists reverse a rule of nature, then confirm it with a split light beam.

In 200 million years, there will be no borders–and possibly no humans.

The statue’s unique style hints at a vanished empire.

A hidden pattern of clustered connections did all the remembering.

A new study says that 620 million kids will experience another month of heat stress once Earth reaches the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming mark.

Skulls had been turned into cups, some bones had been boiled, but the reason these stone age people were eating other humans remains unknown.

The search wasn’t supposed to turn up human remains.

Using LiDAR, the team discovered 1.5 miles of pre-Columbian roads, but to protect the find, officials are keeping the specific location a secret.

Pulling up 40 pounds of silver sure beats plain old gravel.

Adding a whole new meaning to the phrase “soiled underwear.” 

Scientists long thought this pricey piece of carbon held no piezoelectric properties, but a new study says that isn’t the case. 

Is our search for the ever-elusive substance finally at an end? 

New experiments raise important questions about what it means to die.

Researchers trained an AI model to identify signals in the Earth’s core-mantle boundary that could be harbingers of tectonic activity.

The fish’s extreme lifespan could reshape how conservationists protect it.