The rediscovered lines also give rare voice to Babylon’s women, especially its priestesses. It describes them as devout and ...

More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed ...

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In one of Stanford’s labs, a roll of Scotch tape spins under a motorized roller. To the untrained eye, it’s an ordinary strip ...

Nature’s least loved animals are dying fast. This could make the environment stinky and pathogens unstoppable.

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Underwater contact makes up most of orcas’ social life, yet scientists traditionally watch from boats and count surface cues: ...

Now, thanks to ancient DNA and a sculptor’s art, we can meet her again.

A temple bigger than a city block was hiding in plain sight for over 1,000 years.