For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on the menu. Whether or not this mysterious form of life still exists or went ...

Ancient hieroglyphics discovered in Mexico have revealed the identity of a long-forgotten Mayan ruler. The inscription — chiseled into a large stone — was unearthed last year in the jungle of the ...

Mayan language experts have decoded the name of a previously unknown Maya queen on a stone inscription discovered last year.

Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

When 115,000 tons of food waste hit Surrey's processing facility each year, an invisible army goes to work—billions of ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that ...

Pre-eclampsia is one of the most serious complications in pregnancy, affecting millions of women and newborns worldwide.