Five kilometres (about three miles) of open sea, strong currents and waves that give no warning. That is the distance between ...
Here is how a consultation worked. Anyone with a question (whether to travel, close a purchase, go to court, or wait for a ...
The newly discovered crocodile, Herugavialis cairensis, lived in the shallow marine environments that covered large parts of Egypt 50 million years ago. Credit: Adel Lee A skull pulled from the Sphinx ...
A new study argues that the Sun will shed its outer layers in about 4,600 lopsided bursts rather than a smooth breeze. Each burst would nudge the giant planets just enough to scramble their orbits, ...
Almost nothing is left of a Roman window. The wooden frame rots, the glass (when there was any) shatters and the iron rusts away, so a grille that reaches us in one piece is a rarity. One has now ...
Cut a mammoth tusk across and a pattern appears that nobody drew. Rings like those of a tree trunk mark how the ivory grew, ...
Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), ...
Near Parabita, a town in the province of Lecce, in the heel of Italy's boot (the region of Apulia, also spelled Puglia), a limestone cave holds a piece of Ice Age history. Two small bone figurines ...
About 70 million years ago, in what is now Alberta, Canada, a young Albertosaurus—a relative of T. rex—ended up as food for ...
Any pediatrician has seen it: a baby who spends so many hours lying on their back that one side of the head ends up flat. The ...
The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 ...
Among the stone tools that early humans left beside a lake in northern Israel, archaeologists found something far bigger: the ...
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