In a room of St. Catherine’s Monastery in the mountains of Sinai, a chance discovery in 1975 forever changed the study of ...

Although the mechanism by which lightning strikes the ground has long been understood, the exact process that triggers its formation within storm clouds had remained one of the great mysteries of ...

The underground shrine at Paestum, southern Italy, where the vessels containing the residue were found. Credit: Diego Delso / Wikimedia Commons A team of chemists and archaeologists from the ...

An international team of researchers has identified what could be the first artificial memory systems created by humans, carved into bones tens of thousands of years ago. These findings, published in ...

A team of archaeologists led by Davide Zori, Ph.D., principal investigator of the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project (SGARP) and associate professor of history and archaeology at Baylor ...

A team of Spanish researchers has made an extraordinary discovery at the Roman site of A Cibdá de Armea, near Ourense (Galicia, Spain): a trilobite fossil, a marine animal extinct for millions of ...

Beneath the grounds where a new neighborhood is set to be built in the city of Carmei Gat, in southern Israel, archaeologists have found a workshop specialized in the production of flint blades dating ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have identified a new state of matter within a material synthesized in their laboratories—an advance that could redefine the boundaries of ...

Beneath the grounds where a new school is set to be built in Bielefeld, Germany, a team of archaeologists has unearthed the foundations of a large settlement that flourished between the 2nd and 5th ...

Sleep remains one of the great enigmas of science, and despite its importance for physical and mental health, many of its mechanisms still have no explanation. Now, research from the University of ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a group of researchers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has identified 17 complex organic ...

A team of scientists led by David Amblàs, from the Consolidated Research Group in Marine Geosciences at the University of Barcelona, and Riccardo Arosio, from University College Cork (Ireland), has ...