The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

During a gold-digging expedition in the Kolyma region, Russian miners made an incredible discovery – a perfectly preserved ...

Scientists have just unearthed the fascinating ancient monotreme dubbed the echidnapus at Australia’s Lightning Ridge, a creature that lived 100 million years ago. This ancient blend of echidna and ...

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed ...

In the U.S. capital, hundreds of Ethiopians dressed in traditional white shawls chant in the ancient liturgical language of one of the oldest branches of Christianity. During ...

There is a saying derived from ancient Chinese lore that, to wish someone well, you tell them: “May you live in interesting times.” And what is time but a sequence of events that may indeed be ...