Those structures had to be made of something, possibly proteins, Schweitzer reasoned, launching her quest to recover remnants ...

Planetary geologists reply that these impressions usually result from pareidolia, the tendency for the brain to see familiar shapes in random patterns, a tendency Carl Sagan long ago called an ...

Imagine a place where the ocean meets ancient forest in a dance that’s been ongoing for millennia – that’s Anastasia State Park in St. Augustine, a coastal gem that somehow remains one of Florida’s ...

Scientists reported the findings Wednesday, but stressed that an in-depth analysis of the sample gathered there last summer ...

LHASA — In Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, the ancient Tibetan script, which dates back over 1,300 years, is now ...

Archaeologists explore the Antikythera shipwreck. The Antikythera Mechanism is now split into 82 fragments, only 30% has been ...

Learn how Mars' mantle differs from Earth's and why it seismic signatures of marsquakes act like a time capsule into its past ...

A provocative new analysis argues that ancient builders may have used a hydraulic lift inside Djoser’s Step Pyramid—long ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient bathhouse underwater in Naples, Italy, that may have belonged to Marcus Tullius Cicero, ...

The data shows that tweaks to csp15 peptide in cold-shock proteins, expands the range of microbes that plant immune systems can recognize ...

Some of the world’s oldest microbial DNA has been found preserved in the mammoth remains dating back over one million years. An international team, led by researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics ...