An ancient Norwegian cult site was active until the time a landslide struck in roughly 800 B.C. Since then, nobody has known ...

The 1.8-million-year-old jawbone, found in a site no bigger than two parking spots, upends the timeline of humans migrating ...

Kaons have several known common ways of decaying, but the one in this paper is so rare that scientists weren’t sure it existed before now. Their model predicted they’d see less than a quarter of one ...

Archaeologists in Austria unearthed a rare ivory pyx and marble shrine from a 6th-century abandoned church. The pyx features unique biblical imagery, including Moses on Mount Sinai and a rare ...

An open field in Scotland was set to be dotted with the homes of a fresh new subdivision. But right as the project was ...

To maximize energy efficiency, Godynuk recommends looking for a fridge with an inverter compressor. This type of compressor ...

Yeti doesn't go on sale that often—and when it does, it's usually not marked down by much—but this time around, we’re seeing ...

The truth about extraterrestrial encounters may lie on the operating table, according to doctors and skeptics.

Some of the most credible encounters with nonhuman aircraft have happened over the world’s oceans. Now, the witnesses want ...

Excavations revealed everything from a 14th-century Black Death group burial to three skeletons from the late 12th or early ...

Without wasting much time, Y. pestis arrived on the western coast of the U.S. in March 1900. Upon coming ashore, it infected ...

DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine)—the mysterious psychedelic molecule that occurs naturally in plants, animals, and possibly the ...