A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric dinosaur footprints.

An identical transmitter to the one aboard the aviator’s final flight may have produced the clue everyone’s been waiting for.

Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. Hygieia (from whose name we get the word ‘hygiene’) was known as the ...

This turn-dial tightening mechanism has been used in outdoor industry footwear for years. Will it replace old-school laces?

The discovery of non-cyanobacteria diazotrophs underneath Arctic sea ice could change our understanding of the food web, as ...

Neuroscience has long worshiped the neocortex—the brain’s hub for sophisticated thought. But consciousness may originate ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.

The research team scoured the 12 th century C.E. Dresden Codex—a rare, fully preserved Maya book known for its eclipse table.

The genetic link between bones discovered thousands of miles away from each other suggests a prehistoric migration route.

At the northern end of Hadrian’s Wall, volunteers and archaeology students uncovered pottery, metalwork, soldiers’ tools, and ...

The discovery prompted an international search to figure out how the ancient headstone made it to New Orleans.