More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...

This video explores the curious theory of “plasmoid technology” and whether ancient civilizations might have understood or harnessed it. At the center is the so-called Thunderstorm Generator—a ...

How do cutting-edge science and technology respond to ethical and legal issues when incorporated into society? These issues ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future? Eske Willerslev was on a tour of Montreal’s Redpath Museum, a Victorian-era ...

Identifying signs of life in ancient rocks is hard. It is not enough to find organic molecules—rocks of all sorts contain them but “organic” just means the molecules contain chains of carbon atoms.

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

A study of genomes from ancient Siberian people shows genetic linkages with people living in Estonia, Finland and Hungary today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Advanced technology uncovers ancient graffiti, including love notes and sketches, offering fresh insights into daily life in ...