Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied ...

Amid extreme heat, Earth records its coldest temperature. Credit: The Weather Network. In the darkness of the Antarctic winter, the thermometer at Concordia Station dropped to minus 84.1 degrees ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on ...

Refugee camps for people displaced by Boko Haram conflict. Image credits: EU / Flickr. A trench surrounding a Nigerian military base stopped motorcycle-riding militants from getting inside. So, ...

Mars as viewed by Psyche as it continued its mission through the solar system. Credit: NASA. At first, Mars was little more than a curved blade of light suspended in darkness. As NASA’s Psyche ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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