Who built Serpent Mound—and why? While some date it to 1,000 years ago, its precise alignment with the summer solstice sunset suggests deeper cosmic wisdom. Ancient builders may have recognized the ...

Somewhere between Google Earth glitches and ancient prophecy, a new kind of internet mystery has taken hold. It doesn’t come ...

Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

More information: Anna El Khoury et al, A battle against arsenic toxicity by Earth's earliest complex life forms, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59760-9 ...

Many ancient Greek scientists believed that Earth was literally at the center of the universe, and the stars and other celestial bodies rotated around it, although a model with Earth orbiting the ...

Baby names inspired by Greek history and mythology are gaining popularity in the US. From Athena to Zeus, there is a name for ...

A new dispute erupted as Thailand’s army accused Google Maps of wrongly showing Cambodia owns the ancient Ta Muean Thom ...

Vast amounts of organic carbon settle on the seafloor each year, coming from decaying marine life and from living (or once ...

Researchers recreated a 30,000-year-old ocean journey from Taiwan to Japan using canoes and simulations to test early human ...

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

Army says Google Maps' marking of Prasat Ta Muen Thom in Cambodia holds no legal weight; Thailand maintains full sovereignty ...