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 ...

Plastic debris in the sea. Image credits: Wiki Commons. In the middle of the North Pacific, thousands of kilometers from the nearest continent, sea anemones, hydroids, crustaceans and other coastal ...

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

We grow up believing that greatness reveals itself early. The chess prodigy, the child violinist, the teenage Olympian—these stories dominate our imagination. We assume that to be the best, you have ...

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.

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