The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the ...

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

The year's most exciting discoveries included the site where a young George Washington stopped a friendly fire incident, the ...

Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, explored ancient myths and folklore about creating automation, artificial ...

Did you know that aquaculture is the fastest-growing food production sector In the world? This is as a result of seafood being one of those rare types of food that is very useful to humans and at the ...

An Ancient Computer That Predicted the Cosmos Discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera around 1901, this device was used to predict astronomical positions, eclipses, and ...

The Book of Kells—an illuminated manuscript of the Christian gospels, the New Testament books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and ...

Often archaeologists dig beneath the earth to learn about the past; however, there is another place that holds objects that ...