Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

Built in 1612, this massive astrolabe could track stars, time, and location with great accuracy—and now it’s heading to ...

A Stradivarius violin is one of the most prized instruments in classical music. The few musicians lucky enough to play an ...

It captures one moment during a two-hour encounter between four cooperatively hunting orcas and a crabeater seal. The seal, ...

Scientists know that smell depends on a vast library of receptors, each tuned to different odor molecules. But they could not ...

Artistic depiction of the darkness measurement. Image not to scale. Physicists have experimentally confirmed a strange ...

Now, French archaeologist François Desset and his colleagues say they have cracked much of it. If confirmed, their work would ...

After the war in Iran repeatedly choked ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the planet’s most important energy ...

China’s rapidly expanding nuclear program has entered a new phase. A new report from the China Nuclear Energy Association ...

Artistic reconstruction of a dire wolf. You may have seen them in Game of Thrones, but dire wolves aren’t fantasy beasts.

Humans seem to be worse than nuclear radiation for wildlife. Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone has ...

The Ho 229’s stealth reputation partly comes from later claims that Reimar Horten intended to mix charcoal dust into the ...