Scientists have unearthed facial bones that may belong to a previously unknown human species. The bones, nicknamed "Pink," ...

The full moon is covered during a total eclipse and blushes coppery red because of stray bits of sunlight filtering through ...

Thirty million years ago, a fearsome carnivore roamed the lush forests of what is now Egypt. A recent discovery in the Fayoum Desert reveals the secrets of this little-known predator, shedding new ...

Anaxagoras was not the only ancient Greek philosopher who attempted to understand astronomy, despite the dominant religious views of the time. Democritus, a philosopher from Abdera who lived between ...

China’s Zhurong rover and its ground-penetrating radar detected the ancient shorelines when it operated from May 2021 to May 2022. The rover landed in Utopia Planitia, a plain within the largest ...

and the earliest chemistry and astronomy in Asia had Taoist connexions. In ancient China, although Taoist empirical mysticism favoured the development of science, Confucian ethical rationalism was ...

West African rainforests today. Dense woods resulted in low levels of grass pollen at the ancient site, the researchers report. Ancient rainforest pioneers served as ancestors of later Stone Age ...

About 2.5 million years ago, the viruses infecting fish in Africa"s Lake Tanganyika underwent a mysterious and rapid explosion in diversity. Yet the exact cause of this change has remained a mystery.

Hyaenodonts were the main meat-eating mammal at the time across what is now Africa and Arabia ... So the team took inspiration from Bastet, the ancient leonine Egyptian goddess of pleasure ...

the Naval Hill Planetarium in Bloemfontein and the Visitor Centre at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town,” Carrim said. Rosemary Anderson, the national chairperson of Fedhasa ...

According to the Ancient Egyptian Astronomy Database , most of the diagonal star tables found in the past have been found in coffins made in the early Middle Kingdom around 2000 BC.

The Sacred Cenote is located in southeast Mexico and is one of several water-filled sinkholes found in the ancient city of Chichen-Itza. Found in the Yucatán Peninsula, this natural cave is a 60 ...