Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...

Scientists discovered 6-million-year-old ice in Antarctica, offering the oldest direct record of Earth’s ancient atmosphere ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

Salt has been with humankind almost since the beginning of time. Its usefulness as a seasoning and preservative extends to other historical applications, both therapeutic and ritual, so it is not surp ...

Viruses are often seen only as killers—responsible for diseases like HIV, Ebola, and influenza. But what if we told you that ...

The Skeletons Of Two Roman Londoners Tell A Fascinating Story!' Today it is one of the greatest cities on earth. But London, ...

President Jimmy Carter, the Carter Center and LifeStraw have waged a war against Guinea Worm disease since 1986. We're now closer than ever to completely eradicating an ancient disease from the planet ...

The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice” looks at ancient sediment pulled from beneath the ice sheet that was stored at the ...

Some believe the earliest documentation of alien visitation to Earth exists in prehistoric cave paintings and petroglyphs, where drawings of strange humanoid figures feature distinctively non-human ...