Could it be that the alchemists’ long-elusive dream — transmuting the worthless into the sublime — has at last been realized?

Antarctic research has received a new boost thanks to a novel new technique providing new insights into how the paleoclimate ...

If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...

For the first time, we have a method for extracting proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains – which could be a ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

Scientists are exploring whether quantum mechanics can confirm the existence of free will, a concept deeply embedded in ...

Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex. The tombs of three ...

The scrolls in question, stored in a library in a Roman villa that is thought to have belonged to the father-in-law of Julius ...

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.

In biology, enzymes have evolved over millions of years to drive chemical reactions. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute ...

A tomb that may have been built for a close friend of Alexander the Great may be aligned with the winter solstice.