History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern applications.

Fragments of a star catalog from the second century B.C. have turned up in a manuscript that had been erased and written over centuries later. A new analysis of the religious manuscript shows that the ...

Cocaine didn't make its way across the Atlantic until after the Spanish invaded. So how did cocaine end up being found on ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct ...

Ancient parrots really got around. A new analysis of their DNA found that humans transported living Amazonian macaw parrots across the Andes mountains to coastal Peru hundreds of years before the Inca ...