Discovery

Some 300 years ago, non-Indigenous travelers along the Upper and Middle Orinoco River—one of the world’s largest rivers, its flows looping for 1,400 miles through Colombia and Venezuela—first reported sightings of mysterious rock engravings, depicting snakes and other patterns, along its shores. But as the years passed, these artworks were recorded...

This stunning blue mask may represent the Aztec cycle of death and renewal.

Two gold-and-iron artifacts from ancient Spain predated our ability to work with iron. So how did they do it? With ready-to-use iron from the sky.

Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, an extinct hominin. Her discovery changed our understanding of evolution.

Researchers have achieved an astonishing feat: creating functional mouse stem cells capable of developing into...

BALTIMORE — In a groundbreaking discovery that’s turning the world of linguistics and archaeology upside down, researchers from Johns Hopkins University have unearthed what may be the oldest known alphabetic writing in human history — and it’s dramatically older than anyone previously thought. Hidden within a tomb in western Syria, four delicate clay cylinders are challenging everything scholars believed about the origins of alphabetic...

Physicists say they detected a double helix in the fabric of spacetime

The Homotherium cub was preserved in Siberian permafrost with its dark fur and flesh intact.

A recent study has revealed a link between Mesopotamian cylinder seals and the proto-cuneiform symbols that emerged as one of the earliest writing systems.

Inside a cave beneath a medieval German castle, researchers have discovered a pit of bones that they say unlock secrets of the earliest humans.

Mystery solved!

Well, not “locally real,” at least.

One team of experts believes this could be a major breakthrough. Not everyone is so sure.

From 140 million miles distant, Earth just got the following message: NASA knows exactly what comes next. This message helps with transmitting.

Scientists have turned a 41,000-year-old magnetic reversal into a haunting soundscape.

Researchers used a collection of charged atoms to create a quantum superposition of an exotic type of defect

How did life emerge on Earth? The age-old question has intrigued experts for years and now a study has hinted that rocky guests who visit us frequently might have carried the seeds of life.  Meteorites likely brought the building blocks of life to the primordial Earth from space, as per new evidence. Scientists are intrigued by the finding as this means that alien life exists somewhere in space.

Dark oxygen could have been discovered for the first time in history: Experts are worried about what could we do know

NASA teleports astronauts using holoportation tech, revolutionizing communication and collaboration in space.

Physicists report the first observations of quantum entanglement in quarks, the heaviest known fundamental particles, inside the Large Hadron Collider

Biologists Peter Noble and Alex Pozhitkov published their findings on biobots in the journal Physiology

Zeus, the world’s most powerful laser, uncovers unknown particle interactions and revolutionizes science.

A submerged bridge dating back at least 5,600 years is an indicator that human life in Mallorca, Spain, was present earlier than previously believed.

The old hunting tool was discovered in a "lost" mountain site, an archaeologist told Newsweek.

Neutron stars are timelike matter with a maximum mass of about 2.34 solar masses in quantum chromodynamics (the strong color force). Black holes are spacelike matter that have no maximum mass, but a minimum ...