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Archaeologists in the U.K. have discovered a 1,400-year-old burial ground that contains “sand burials” of two elite people and a horse dating to Anglo-Saxon times.The archaeological…

Folk medicine practitioners in 16th-century Europe left ingredients and fingerprints smudged on their manuals while developing remedies for minor ailments. Now, researchers are studying the chemical…

Astronomers have revealed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) sharpest-ever image of the area around a black hole. The spectacular view could help solve a decades-long…

QUICK FACTSName: Nebra Sky DiscWhat it is: A bronze disc with gold accentsWhere it is from: Nebra, GermanyWhen it was made: Circa 1800 to 1600 B.C.The…

Scientists continue to push the boundaries of astronomy and cosmology, thanks to next-generation instruments that can see farther and clearer than ever before.Through these efforts, astronomers…

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them, called phages, are locked in an evolutionary arms race. But that evolution follows a different trajectory when the battle…

If it feels like everyone around you has come down with the flu, you’re not imagining it.As of Jan. 9, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…

“All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments”, proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (first to second century A.D.), the…

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s…

Astronomers have gotten a rare glimpse at four baby planets as they’re growing up, and it reveals something surprising: These toddler worlds are getting lighter as…