Cutting-edge LiDAR technology has revealed an astonishing secret concealed beneath the dense jungle canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó: hundreds of pre-Hispanic structures that dramatically expand our ...

During its original network run in the 1960s, Star Trek was famously saved from cancellation twice by fan letter-writing ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

Season’s greetings from The Debrief… this week in our top stories, researchers have unveiled a novel “cloaking device” that can shield complex objects from detection using real-world materials.

A new tool is helping families reunite with their missing pets, and it's all thanks to artificial intelligence technology. A North Texas woman feels grateful for it. Pam Kinnett and her beloved cat ...

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase ...

A cube-shaped skull that was discovered in Mexico provides rare insight into a 1,400-year-old Mesoamerican civilization’s social practices — which included deliberate deformation. The skull belonged ...

Scholars studying ancient sites in Asia Minor have exposed a powerful culture from the Late Bronze Age. In what is now western Turkey, the team found 483 archaeological settlements that would have ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the construction of buildings, bridges, and aqueducts, many of which are still ...