In a remarkable development, a human mathematician has achieved what many thought impossible: solving the centuries-old ...

An ancient elk gazes into the distance from the steep shoreline cliff of Lake Yövesi. The autumn day is sunny, but very windy ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

The concept of reputation, and who is sharing information, may be the key to recognizing misinformation in the AI era.

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But ...

Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago ...

This ‘NOVA’ installment explores the possible purposes of strange stone formations found in the Arabian Peninsula.

A fire whistle might seem like ancient technology when it comes to alerting a community about a fire. But in New Stanton, residents say that, without the whistle, they’re concerned the fire department ...

A team of researchers has uncovered extensive remains of a semi-submerged ancient settlement along the northern coast of ...

On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the world’s first telegraph message, tapping out the biblical phrase “What hath God ...

One of the first events to signal the collapse of Napoleon's reign was his crushing defeat after an invasion of Russia in ...

The computer modeling revealed that prehistoric humans influenced European landscapes through two primary mechanisms: deliberate burning of trees and shrubs to create more open habitats, and hunting ...