A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

There is something quietly humbling about standing before an ancient artifact and realizing, with all of our satellites, supercomputers, and electron microscopes, we still have no clue how it was made ...

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A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ancient Romans purposely collected and modified the tiny fossils. A computer ...

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A tiny curse tablet excavated in the Dutch municipality of Heerlen allegedly invokes Egyptian deities and demons not in Latin ...

Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe around them. The meticulous star catalog belonging to one of the best of these ...

A colossal new sea predator named Tylosaurus rex has been identified from fossils found in Texas, revealing a brutal 43-foot-long hunter that ruled ancient oceans 80 million years ago. The discovery ...

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Rhinoplasty is one of the most common facial plastic surgeries performed today. And it turns out, the ability to reconstruct a nose with living... The ancient science of nose jobs Rhinoplasty is one ...