In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

It seems the AI hype has turned into an AI bubble. There have been many bubbles before, from the Tulip mania of the 17th ...

In this chapter from 'Speaking of History', Romila Thapar and Namit Arora discuss the cultural inferiority complex among ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...

The most promising clues are not in speculative business plans but in ancient space rocks themselves, whose chemistry and ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Is it truly possible that this frozen traveler from another star system could be an alien spacecraft? The suggestion is ...

Gauhar Raza on godmen, majoritarian politics, and why the assault on scientific temper thrives among both the educated and ...

What did a vulture-bone flute sound like inside a cave? How about singing inside a tomb? Researchers are bringing ancient ...

The discovery’s highlight was a 247-pound cannon from the Ming dynasty, but archaeologists also found remains of crops and ...