Scientists traced microbial life in Finland’s 78M-year-old Lappajärvi crater to just 4–5 million years after impact, using isotopic signatures of sulfate- and methane-cycling bacteria.

Missouri State University archaeologists Daniel Pierce and Christopher Bodine are heading to Brazil to study ancient Amazonian geoglyphs that may reveal an unknown civilization.

One of the longest ancient Roman aqueducts in the Mediterranean is preserved in excellent condition in Heraklion, capital of Crete, Greece.

With higher utility bills, a house that produces more energy than it uses may be appealing. In southern California, one such ...

Okay, I’m torn about Seagate. I’ve known the company forever… From when it started. Here’s my problem: it sells at 20 times ...

Fashion and Freud? From top hats to stilettos, bustiers to bullet dresses, what we choose to put on our backs is interpreted ...

Venturing into an Etruscan tomb once meant crawling through rubble, breathing dust, and crawling into rooms excavated more ...

Astronomers predict it will pass relatively close to four planets (but not Earth) and the Sun, then continue its cosmic ...

When a toucan plucks fruit from a tree in the Amazon Rainforest, it’s doing more than just finding lunch. Moving to a new ...

Biblical archaeologists are using ancient texts and modern technology to uncover possible clues to one of Christianity's ...

A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and became the ...

Heterostyly, a floral polymorphism where a species produces two or three distinct flower types with reciprocal arrangements ...