The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

The rediscovered lines also give rare voice to Babylon’s women, especially its priestesses. It describes them as devout and ...

To simulate menstrual fluid, the team used glycerol, a thick liquid similar in consistency to blood. In both pre-flight and ...

More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed ...

Nature’s least loved animals are dying fast. This could make the environment stinky and pathogens unstoppable.

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

Now, thanks to ancient DNA and a sculptor’s art, we can meet her again.

Underwater contact makes up most of orcas’ social life, yet scientists traditionally watch from boats and count surface cues: ...

In one of Stanford’s labs, a roll of Scotch tape spins under a motorized roller. To the untrained eye, it’s an ordinary strip ...

A temple bigger than a city block was hiding in plain sight for over 1,000 years.

A team of researchers from ANSES, France’s food safety agency, has found that drinks sold in glass bottles actually contain ...

“She is undoubtedly the only known case in the world,” said Thierry Peyrard, a medical biologist at Établissement français du ...