That star, named Polaris, is the brightest in the constellation of Ursa Minor, "The Little Bear".

But I am as constant as the Northern Star”, says Julius Caesar in the play Shakespeare named after him. He was making a ...

Country music singer Chris Lane, known for such hits as "Fix," "I Don't Know About You" and "Big, Big Plans," will close out the daylong Honeybee Festival in LaFayette, Ga., on May 31 with a ...

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

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Under a cloud of incense smoke, a group of men and women in a village in northern Greece swayed slowly to the music before ...

The VTOL is called Sigma and for the moment it only exists as a scale prototype that has already went through flight testing. Work is currently being conducted to get a full-scale demonstrator ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are among the oldest known ...

The travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has released the eighth edition of its annual Milky Way Photographer of the ...

Described by Capture the Atlas as an "extraordinary milestone," the image One in a Billion, was captured by NASA astronaut ...

A group of students recently recreated a rice dish using an ancient recipe – and the results were unusual. The challenge was undertaken by researchers at the Yuelu Academy of Hunan University in ...