Winter weather warning as 40 inches of snow to hit—travel "impossible" Actor James Ransone, who starred in 'The Wire,' dies from an apparent suicide at 46 Georgia Democrat indicted over alleged fraud ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

One small artifact opened up a world of discovery of a Neolithic civilization with a remarkably advanced social structure.

Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.

Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, climate philosopher, and author, most recently, of “Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress.” He teaches at the University of Notre ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?

Cutting-edge LiDAR technology has revealed an astonishing secret concealed beneath the dense jungle canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó: hundreds of pre-Hispanic structures that dramatically expand our ...

It seems we’ve decided the humanities have less to give the human race — or more modestly, this country’s future — than the sciences. This is a serious mistake. The sciences and the humanities are ...

A 10,000-year-old pottery vessel has been discovered in Lake Biwa, Japan, providing rare insight into the Jomon period, one ...