Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

A strange pyramid-shaped formation on Mars has fueled speculation that an advanced, Earth-like civilization may have once ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

For some, this status was reached when we attained a certain level of technological complexity, while others view the emergence of abstract thought as the rubicon of modernity – although a new study ...

Three leaves had been missing for more than a century. Researchers found one of them when they decided on a whim to check the archives of a French museum ...

Science Textbook Controversies “In 1969 the California Board of Education issued new guidelines for the biology curriculum of the state’s public schools. The guidelines ...

This frames the plot of “The Evitable Conflict,” a short story from “I, Robot,” Isaac Asimov’s seminal collection published in 1950. In the background of the nuclear age, technology was quietly ...

Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life for ancient Egyptians living over 2,000 years ago—something for which ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...

A group of researchers led by Wei Shui from Beijing University of Science and Technology analyzed the contents of a bronze vessel found in Henan Province and identified an alcoholic drink about 2,000 ...

A routine drive by NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally cracked open a Martian rock, revealing rare yellow sulfur crystals. The strange discovery has scientists questioning how such an unexpected ...