Throughout the years, exoplanet hunters have been playing an increasingly frustrating game. They kept finding rocky, Earth-sized worlds tucked neatly inside the habitable zones of nearby stars — the ...

Living nearly 900 meters underwater, this isopod evolved unusual adaptations to thrive in the world’s most food-scarce ...

Its edge was unusually rounded, enough to make Andrew Birley pause as he knelt inside the remains of a Roman barracks in ...

Today, the Sahara is a 3.6-million-square-mile expanse of blistering sand, sweeping dunes, and barren rock. It defines the very concept of an inhospitable wasteland. Yet, hidden deep within the arid ...

According to a new study, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has supplied the durable surfaces needed for an accidental ...

The setup of the ingenious computer that works with tension and springs. Credit: St. Olaf College It has no wires, no silicon ...

The bird-fish hybrid could one day be used to study aquatic animals underwater and then fly back to the base with data.

At a thriving Celtic trading center in western France, metalworkers forged weapons, keys, tools, and fittings for horses.

Of the 11,000 people belonging to this Papuan community, around 200 died each year. One in every ten people in the tribe was ...

Long before modern refrigeration, the ancient Inca Empire was preserving food for years and moving it across vast distances.

Nearly half a million years ago, ancient humans at Kalambo Falls in Zambia shaped and fitted together large pieces of wood to build a substantial structure. The discovery, dated to at least 476,000 ...

Elephants may hear messages traveling through the ground from more than 10 kilometers away, thanks to massive ear bones and a muscle that can shut their ear canals.