Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...

As the world clamors for Greenland’s rare earth minerals and energy potential, will its people be able to choose their own path?

New research shows early humans created structured ancient symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media. Archaeologists have discovered Paleolithic ...

Standing before a masterpiece in a hushed museum gallery, most visitors admire the brushwork, the colors, the composition.

The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as ...

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in the ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching ...

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) 2 spacecraft is one of many science missions at NASA targeted for termination in the 2026 budget request. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — Comments by NASA’s ...