Trackers no bigger than a breath mint are telling us where birds are really going.

Scientists say 15,000-year-old engravings prove humans reached the Emerald Isle far earlier than thought via a lost land bridge.

The false door inside was meant for the soul to enter and leave the afterlife at will.

A life without pain seems miraculous. But denying this hallmark of human existence could come with its own set of challenges.

Holy manuscripts preserved the genome of a plague that wiped out up to 90% of Europe’s historical sheep herds.

The stone carving could be thousands of years old, possibly from the Bronze Age.

A portable scanner allowed scientists to decipher messages no human has seen in four millennia.

A continental mash-up some 750 to 550 million years ago was likely essential for complex life to emerge during the Cambrian Explosion. 

Bronze Age China couldn’t smelt iron, making the Sanxingdui relic a truly celestial oddity.

He invented a science, spied in the Balkans, and smuggled guns. Then history erased his name.

Although predicting the timing of seismic catastrophes remains tricky, these geophysicists’ algorithm could help communities located near subduction zones.

Nothing but the best for the leader of the Roman Empire.

In a sustainable future, nothing goes to waste…including human waste.

Despite surprising recent ice gains, the frozen continent remains in a perilous balance as warmer seas continue to erode the Antarctic Ice Sheet from below.

As we venture into longer-term missions, the altered gravity may reorganize our brains in unexpected ways, research suggests.

While the 1947 Roswell Incident ignited a global UFO craze, few know of the top-secret military project that started it all. 

Denmark, Norway, and now Finland have each shattered Viking hoard records in the last few months. Something’s going on.

Aging is a complicated puzzle, but one of its biggest pieces might be a receptor that fails to clear away damaged, senescent cells. 

The Vikings beat Columbus to North America by centuries, but identifying the exact year is proving much harder. A surge of carbon-14 could help.