The Sverris Saga, written in the 12th century, describes King Sverre’s rise to power and his conflict with the Baglers. The ...

Thirty years ago, astronomers weren’t sure planets beyond our solar system even existed. This year, NASA has confirmed its ...

Seven thousand years ago, people living on the Atlantic edge of Europe built a massive wall of stone where land met water.

Lava is supposed to be red—that’s volcanoes 101. But at Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen, the Earth decides to break the rules. Instead ...

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

Bolivian crocidolite was used in approximately 13 billion Kent Micronite cigarette filters, manufactured from March 1952 ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...

This search has led a team of researchers to an unlikely candidate—the humble carob pulp, a neglected food by-product. Their ...

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

In a new clinical trial, people with obesity and knee osteoarthritis who took an experimental drug from Eli Lilly lost large ...

The Apennine brown bear, Ursus arctos marsicanus, exists nowhere else on Earth. Genetic evidence shows that this population ...