Suspended in a sunbeam, a tiny speck of light we all call home reminds us of our shared fragility and the vastness of the cosmos. This speck, seen in Voyager 1’s famous “Pale Blue Dot” image, shows ...

A new discovery suggests people have been smoking pot since at least 2,500 years ago. As reported by The Guardian, a group of researchers found traces of highly potent cannabis at an ancient burial ...

Within the depths of a cave in southern Poland, researchers made a gruesome discovery about the prehistoric people who lived in the area 18,000 years ago. A recent study analyzing human remains found ...

Archaeologists exploring the ancient ruins of Finziade, the last Greek colony on the island of Sicily, recently discovered a mold used to create masks depicting the mythological Gorgon Medusa during ...

Hundreds of Mayan artifacts have been found underwater in a Guatemalan lake, according to the Daily Mail. Among the trove of relics were weaponry, like a stone mace head and an obsidian blade, which ...

In 2015, an Australian health influencer named Belle Gibson had built a wellness empire. By just 23, she’d launched a popular app called The Whole Pantry and written an accompanying cookbook. Her ...

The 1915 silent film The Heart of Lincoln has long been listed by the Library of Congress as one of the 7,000 pre-sound movies that’s been lost to history. But thanks to a sharp-eyed intern at the ...

Long before Antarctica became the frozen desert we know it as today, it was the temperate, forested home of one of Earth’s earliest modern bird species: Vegavis iaai. V. iaai thrived in Antarctic ...

The team headed to Harvard University’s Peabody Museum in Cambridge, where they were granted permission to collect the yeast ...

In July 2018, archaeologists unearthed a sprawling, ancient Egyptian “funeral home” beneath Saqqara. The trove of discoveries pointed toward a substantial funeral industry in ancient Egypt and has ...

For decades, researchers have been exploring eastern Spain’s Cova de les Dones, studying its Paleolithic rock art as well as its connections to early Iberian communities. Now, a recent expedition by ...