Visigoth women may have worn eagle-shaped pins as a symbol of power. These two eagle-shaped pins were discovered in central ...

A unique statue dating back to the fifth dynasty of ancient Egypt has been discovered at the necropolis of Saqqara.

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests.

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Forecasters expect Hurricane Humberto to pull Tropical Storm Imelda away from landfall and into a Fujiwhara dance, but the East Coast is still set to experience heavy rains and life-threatening rip ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Alexander Fleming was doing experiments with bacteria when he woke up to a strange mold growing in his petri dish. The "mold ...

By using something called a quantum grid, scientists have found a clever way to simultaneously measure momentum and position ...

Archaeologists have found an extraordinary cluster of Stone Age artifacts that may have been the personal gear of a single ...

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new ...

If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...