When archaeologists studying a fifth-century Swedish site found a human skeleton lying on the floor of a house, they wondered ...

Every year, scientists venture into Earth’s most remote corners — from the crushing depths of ocean trenches to the misty canopies of cloud forests — and return with remarkable discoveries that ...

Mercury was once believed to be a dead and silent planet scorched by the Sun, but new discoveries revealed disturbing mysteries hidden beneath its surface. Scientists uncovered strange anomalies, ...

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have uncovered a new way to manipulate unusual magnetic states by exploiting “frustration” inside a crystal’s atomic structure. The team discovered a rare system where ...