Divers have found a medieval metropolis is sitting at the bottom of a mountain lake in Kyrgyzstan. The city, currently on the bottom of Lake Issyk-Kul is remarkably well-preserved, complete with brick ...

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If you were a Neanderthal hunter 50,000 years ago, even a small cut could be deadly. Without sterile bandages or antibiotics, ...

Dick Van Dyke, the legendary American actor and comedian who starred in classics such as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang ...

A simple note from the trash reveals proof of the existence of a Nubian king and insight into how a kingdom was run.

A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

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In the figure of Enheduanna, we see a powerful figure of great creativity, whose passionate praise of the goddess of love ...

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Schematic of a proposed space mining setup that literally bags asteroids. Credit: TransAstra. The aerospace industry has a new, highly ambitious (some might say crazy) plan for securing off-world ...

Credit: David Hiser/Environmental Protection Agency The bow and arrow only arrived in western North America 1,400 years ago, according to a recent dating of over a hundred ancient weapons. This is ...

What happens to a cigarette but when it’s thrown away? A new study offers an unsettling answer: not much; at least not in the way you’d hope. After tracking cigarette filters for nearly a decade under ...