And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script ...

Researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus recently discovered four rare Palau nautiluses, ancient cephalopods also ... unchanged since the days of the dinosaurs. The sighting thrilled even seasoned ...

A new range of chocolates said to boost health and sex drive has become a bestseller within days of being launched ... Ashwagandha is an ancient medicinal herb commonly used in Ayurvedic medicine ...

The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” 1 In ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

A farmer planting an orchard in eastern Turkey has unearthed an expansive, largely intact mosaic depicting an ancient hunt that archaeologists believe is the largest example of its kind discovered ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows ... two babies at once was the norm. Our ancient primate ancestors gave birth to twins.

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...