Carbon that has been buried in the Congo Basin's peatlands for millennia is seeping into lakes and rivers. Why this is happening remains unclear, but researchers warn that tropical peatlands could be ...

Meet Lucy's hunter, a massive, horned crocodile that likely terrorized early human ancestors in ancient Ethiopia.

One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican’s backyard these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by ...

Cinema in Ancient Greece began with Philion and Heron, who crafted automated theaters, bringing stories to life through motion and spectacle.

The goldsmith Donna Distefano uses ancient metalsmithing techniques to create replica jewelry inspired by portraits at the ...

Google has named its new London headquarters "Platform 37" in a nod to its neighbour, King's Cross ​railway station, and ...

The newly described species Crocodylus lucivenator existed 3.4 to 3 million years ago in present-day Ethiopia, and looked similar to the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). While largely arid ...

Scientists at Curtin University have uncovered a new way to read the deep history of Earth’s landscapes using microscopic zircon crystals from ancient beach sands. These incredibly durable minerals ...

Ancient civilizations introduced remarkable technologies that helped shape the foundations of modern society. However, not ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Coins have been around since what seems like the dawn of time and human civilization. Of course, numismatists, collectors, and historians know this isn’t quite true. It is generally ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...