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 ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient ruins in Pompeii, near the area of the House of the Garden of Hercules. Credit: Paul Appleton / CC BY-NC 2.0 An unfinished construction site in Pompeii is giving researchers their best look ...