The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...

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Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains.

A revolutionary RNA mapping method could let us learn from history’s greatest thinkers—starting with Einstein himself.

If you’ve ever picked up a shark’s tooth on the beach or seen a prehistoric creature’s skull on display at a natural history ...

However, some people have specific cases of exceptional memory, like having an uncanny head for numbers, or an obsessive ...

A stellarator is still a donut shape, but extended and twisted, with different pros and cons.

I took EcoFlow’s latest portable power station, the Delta 3 Plus, into the wild (literally). I brought it on a five-day ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient.

New research suggests that Homo floresiensis’ short stature is probably the result of a type of dwarfism that occurs in isolated environments.

On Friday, September 26, President Donald Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to announce that he has ...

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