It is common that upon the death of a Pope, comments arise recalling his pontificate—some positive, others not so much. But ...

Although the relationship between plants and pollinators has been studied for decades, not much attention has been paid to ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...

Chamber Tombs VV, XX, YY, ZZ, and AB East and West during excavation, the artifacts are in the circle. Credit: Peter M. Fischer and Rainer Feldbacher / Lucia Avial Chicharro Archaeologists found five ...

The greatest journey in human history was not made in a row, or perhaps it was. Credit: Google Gemini / labrujulaverde.com An international team of scientists has managed to reconstruct the longest ...

On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially abolished feudal privileges. By the end of that same month, it ...

A team of researchers from Dartmouth College has proposed a new hypothesis that could verifiably explain the central enigma of cosmology: What is the dark matter that makes up 85 percent of our ...

Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our own—and they have been found by the hundreds throughout the Milky Way, ...

L'assut de l'Argamassa roman dam in Elche. Credit: ¿...Y por qué no un blog...? / University of Alicante A team of researchers from the University Institute for Research in Archaeology and Historical ...

In 1986, a sixth-century Byzantine copper-alloy bucket was found in the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in ...

Many thousands of years before rice or wheat became the main crops in East Asia, millet was the staple grain that sustained ...

It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn ...