An ancient Roman city left untouched for centuries holds some of the most compelling evidence that the stories of the Bible ...
Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into ...
Officials said the finds, announced by Egypt’s antiquities authority, shed light on settlement patterns, production, and ...
Astronomers are gathering in Phoenix this week for the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247), where ...
Ancient Egyptians and Etruscans pioneered orthodontics, using delicate gold wires and catgut to straighten teeth.
Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...
Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...
Archaeologists have unearthed the world’s earliest intentional cremation of an adult human known till date in Malawi, a ...
About 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers in central Africa cremated a small woman on an open pyre at the base ...
A 9,500-year-old burial in Malawi is identified as the world’s oldest adult cremation, offering insight into early African ...
SCIENCE Alchemy Philip Ball Yale University Press $61.95. Towards the end of Philip Ball’s marvellous book on the history of ...