The human body is a self-regulating system, designed to heal when its internal balance is restored. “Acupressure is not a modern innovation; it is an ancient healing science.” It is an ancient healing ...

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...

The 15th edition of The Best Australian Science Writing, edited by Zoe Kean and Tegan Taylor, contains 39 essays and stories that “tell tales of the universe that scientists have worked hard to reveal ...

Twice a year at dawn, a shaft of sunlight cuts through Abu Simbel’s Great Temple to light three statues—and in doing so turns ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.

A centuries-old Chinese medicinal root is getting new scientific attention as a potential game-changer for common hair loss.

In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it may also help fight superbugs.

Although Pythagoras is best known for developing the theorem that bears his name, his influence and significance go far beyond his contributions in mathematics. He was not only a mathematician but ...

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...

Students at a prestigious university in the United Kingdom recently unearthed a likely execution pit on the outskirts of town ...

A new study involving researchers from Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences has finally solved the mystery of what caused ...

Something quietly remarkable is happening in kitchens around the world. Foods that nourished ancient civilizations thousands ...