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Embellished with gold and lapis lazuli, it was found in the Egyptian princess’s tomb at the site of Dahshur, south of Cairo, ...

The worker said that he read the ancient historian “because he makes me think.” As though testing him, Wight asked the ...

A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.

For the first time, astronomers have discovered stellar cocoons rich in complex organic molecules within a supernova remnant.

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IN the bustling manufacturing hubs of Zhejiang province, a quiet but profound revolution is underway as the traditional hum ...

Scientists at the world’s only mummy research institute are combing crypts and caverns for ancient remains—and using new tools to gather fresh insight about how our ancestors once lived. Unlike their ...

Panorama of typical Canadian Shield geography in the Flin Flon, Manitoba, region. Image by Green slash, CC BY-SA 3.0 Deep beneath northern Ontario, in some of the oldest rocks on Earth, geochemists ...