Category Science

One week ago, an asteroid flew so close to Earth that it nearly broke the record for the closest asteroid approach ever. This space surprise came to astronomers’ attention on…

About 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican hunter-gatherers wrapped the body of a young man in a bundle, first with a cotton cloth, then with a maguey mat — a thick textile…

With centuries of construction to its name, Ancient Egypt’s illustrious Karnak Temple wasn’t built in a day. The site — complete with colonnades, courtyards, and even a sacred lake —…

It was once a commonly held belief that women’s menstrual cycles were linked to the moon’s cycles, a theory that researchers from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) think is highly likely. Although…

Once history’s first farmers settled down to start a more sedentary life, they began to see the value of close-knit communities. And they didn’t just forge bonds with their immediate…

Most archaeologists are human — most, though not all, apparently. According to a new analysis in Ecology, the bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) served an archaeological role in southern Spain for…

Once considered Earth’s last frontiers, the Arctic and Antarctic regions tested human limits like no other. The Endurance expedition of 1915 remains one of history’s greatest survival stories, an enduring…

For more than two decades, Earth has slowly been growing darker. Using 24 years of data from NASA’s Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES), researchers have learned that this…

For centuries, will-o’-the-wisp has puzzled scientists and travelers alike. According to folklore, it is the product of faeries, demons, and spirits. More recently, scientists have attributed will-o’-the-wisp, otherwise known as…

Yellowstone National Park experiences heavy rain and snowfall each year, typically during the winter and spring. While most of that water tends to eventually flow into the surrounding rivers, some…