Not that scientists even agree on whether viruses are alive or not. There's so much we don't know, including just what they ...

Xuan paper is recognized by UNESCO and prized among Chinese artists. Now its largest manufacturer is trying to sell it ...

Nostalgia is a killer. The term, originally coined in the late seventeenth century, described an illness that came in ...

Tracks from two humanlike species crossing paths in ancient Africa shed light on the tale of our specialized locomotion.

Philo of Byzantium, a pioneering Hellenistic engineer, revolutionized mechanics and automation in ancient Alexandria.

The clang of chisels echoed through Halifax Minster as 120 of Europe’s finest stone carvers gathered in the 12th century ...

Scopes monkey trial famously put the spotlight on evolution and appeared to mark a defeat for biblical fundamentalism.

WASHINGTON: Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that’s true for early human ancestors, too.Different activities such as climbing, grasping or hammering place stress on ...

“The long and short of it is,” he says, plank in hand, “you take this, you mill it, you mill it, you mill it like this, then you cut it into strips.” Once the wood is cut into pieces of ...

Making your mark on your landscape is ancient practice. Prehistoric cave art might have ... bits of London like Shoreditch are fair game for respraying. On the other hand, I can attest to a West ...

The staples of the ancient Greeks were bread, vegetables, cheese and olives. In the Mycenaean era, each house made its own bread and was equipped with its own hand-operated mill which turned wheat ...