Archeologists working at White Sands National Park in  New Mexico may have uncovered the earliest known traces of such a ...

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

The secret to its rapid transit is in its chemistry. Ethanol, to give booze its proper name, is a tiny, agile molecule. It ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, displaying one of the earliest pieces of evidence of mathematical thinking.

Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and a bit of the backstory of the shameful pardon of the former Honduran president.

Dozens of research articles from 1999–2024 mention early Babylonians using fingerprint biometrics, despite no evidence ...

When you think about climate disasters, your mind probably goes to hurricanes or wildfires. Maybe you picture melting ice ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...