In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

Georgetown University’s Medical Humanities Initiative, a collaborative program between the College of Arts & Sciences and the Georgetown University Medical Center, organized a synergetic conversation ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages, in ...

We had a particularly great week for new research findings, in my opinion. I mean, stories like a 2% improvement in a chemical catalyst are important, sure. There are people out there in lab coats who ...

Welcome to Haunted Wirral, a feature series written by world-famous psychic researcher, Tom Slemen for the Globe.

No matter the specifics of their creation, artificial monstrosities will often have a clear function in a story, guarding a ...

The ancient Greeks used to make a wide variety of breads, as they considered it to be of great importance in their eating ...

Evidence suggests ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, may have had early optical knowledge and devices like ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an ...

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.