Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

Space colonies came extremely close to becoming a reality in the 1970s. However, the plan never reached fruition due to several hurdles.

A type of hydrogen that doesn't interact with light could explain how long neutrons live and reveal the identity of the ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than ...

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

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

"I have a philosophy that I do not employ my doctoral students; I make then go abroad after they have defended their theses.

From ancient arrows to hypersonic gliders, the story of missile technology is one of math, physics—and a bit of luck.

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

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...