Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

A Stradivarius violin is one of the most prized instruments in classical music. The few musicians lucky enough to play an ...

Built in 1612, this massive astrolabe could track stars, time, and location with great accuracy—and now it’s heading to ...

It captures one moment during a two-hour encounter between four cooperatively hunting orcas and a crabeater seal. The seal, ...

Scientists know that smell depends on a vast library of receptors, each tuned to different odor molecules. But they could not ...

Artistic depiction of the darkness measurement. Image not to scale. Physicists have experimentally confirmed a strange ...

"I’d say that while an astronaut could make it to Mars they might need dialysis on the way back," researchers said.

The new plastic is remarkably high quality, researchers say. Image from the study. For years, chemists have been on a quest ...

Artistic reconstruction of a dire wolf. You may have seen them in Game of Thrones, but dire wolves aren’t fantasy beasts.

The Ho 229’s stealth reputation partly comes from later claims that Reimar Horten intended to mix charcoal dust into the ...

This may sound crazy, but scientists use blood to build soft neural interfaces in the brain, and then control them with light ...

Now known as the Mørstad Hoard, the find is the largest Viking Age coin hoard ever discovered in Norway. But its size isn’t ...