Category: Science

Archaeologists excavating in Rome’s Ostiense necropolis found three skeletons with iron nails on their chests, hinting at a ritual to prevent restless spirits.

In a recent opinion article, marine scientists and electrochemists listed a number of reasons why it’s unlikely that metallic nodules on the deep seafloor could

Data suggest people lived at Chile’s Monte Verde site thousands of years later than thought, challenging key “pre-Clovis” evidence. Not all agree.

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

An American bald eagles flies away from its nest and tree at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, March 13, 2026.

Mental health professionals recognize problematic gambling as an addiction. Should the same apply to excessive gaming, compulsive sexual behavior and problematic social media use?

A new analysis of archaeological layers at Monte Verde in Chile suggests that people lived there 4,200 years ago, not 14,500 years ago as originally

Autism experts plan to convene in Washington Thursday to propose a research agenda at odds with the one endorsed by the Trump Administration. (Image credit:

The first Americans came over during the last ice age, but how much do you know about them?

Divers investigating a shipwrecked brig once owned by Lord Elgin have discovered an overlooked piece of marble from the Acropolis in Athens.

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA, suggesting these ingredients of life may be common

A fridge-size space rock spectacularly broke apart over Ohio at 40,000 mph, creating a loud boom and a “fireball” that shone in the bright blue

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old lead bullet in the Holy Land with a darkly sarcastic inscription in Greek.

In the book “The Call of the Honeyguide,” applied ecologist Rob Dunn explores mutually beneficial relationships between different species. But Dunn argues the relationship between