A 4,000-year-old pharaonic painting has vanished from Egypt’s famed Saqqara necropolis, the…
Scientists have identified a new anti-ageing drug class that works by acting on a key gut…
Vultures are not known for their museum conservation skills, but perhaps that ought to change.
Scientists have discovered an unlikely record of human history deep within layers of bone debris left by generations of bearded vultures and their…
Prostate cancer blood tests can lead to men being over-tested, while those who need help may…
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye. In 2023, an AI neural network identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: It wasn’t actually painted by Raphael.
The face in…
About 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican hunter-gatherers wrapped the body of a young man in a bundle, first with a cotton cloth, then with a maguey mat — a thick textile woven from fibers of agave. The body was then placed in a cave in Zimapán,…
One week ago, an asteroid flew so close to Earth that it nearly broke the record for the closest asteroid approach ever.
This space surprise came to astronomers’ attention on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, when the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona…
The latest paleontological discovery has come in an unexpected form: a 126,000-year-old buttock-drag track found in South Africa.
According to a new study in Ichnos, the track was likely made by a rock hyrax. Rock hyraxes, also known as…
When the Jamestown colonists first arrived in Virginia, they brought with them supplies and tools they believed they’d need to start a new colony. While historical records indicate that these supplies included horses, new archaeological…
The origins of Teotihuacan’s inhabitants remain one of archaeology’s enduring questions. The city dominated central Mexico for centuries, yet the language and identity of its people have long remained unknown. Now, researchers may have…