BIG’s new headquarters for Danish material supplier Dymak turns environmental performance into architecture. Rather than treating sustainability as a technical layer hidden within the building, the st...

Nicolae Ceaușescu ruled Romania for 24 years, but his leadership disintegrated in December 1989, and he was executed on Christmas Day.

Spectacle was an essential component of Victorian scientific promotion—perhaps most famously enacted by (eventual) Royal Society president Sir Humphry Davy, who would demonstrate chemical and physi…

The dinosaur skeleton, which roamed the planet 67 million years ago, was sold by Sotheby's in New York.

The famous artefact depicting events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England will go on display in September.

The Voyager Golden Record is usually described as a message: music, greetings, images, Earth sounds, and diagrams sent outward on two spacecraft launched

This fascinating project brings a near-forgotten Antoni Gaudí building to life in New York City, if only digitally.

Only a handful of these small, sleek, marble figurines carved by enigmatic Stone Age people are known to exist.

Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi has been sentenced to 74 lashes for performing a patriotic song on a livestream while not wearing a hijab.

This conceptual project would serve as a renewable energy-generating infrastructure.

There are many theories as to how human language first evolved. But none completely explains why it happened.

The most exciting popular science reads this month explore everything from symbiosis to hormones, while Alice Roberts takes on an editor-in-chief role in her latest book

Valerie Smith refused to leave when a gardener found a bomb in her garden.

Despite their occupations of Britain, the Romans and Vikings didn't leave much of a genetic mark on Britons. The Anglo-Saxons, though, were a different story.

A brilliantly illuminated manuscript from the medieval saga of King Arthur is heading to auction after 700 years in private hands.

As poverty deepens and the Taliban curtails women's rights, domestic violence in Afghanistan is becoming more dangerous, less visible and harder to escape.

In Norway’s highest mountains, experts are scouring perilous terrain for pieces of the past, long stored in mint condition in ice patches. As temperatures rise across the world, glacial archaeologists...

‘A science museum's job is no longer to deliver facts. It is to teach children how to ask them,’ says Ma Yansong, founder of the firm

Decorative and garden varieties fill a metal frame fixed to the five-story building’s facade, making for lush, airy balconies from level to level.

"Its surveying capabilities are over 1,000 times faster than Hubble's and can chart 200 times more sky in a single image. It would take Hubble 2,000 years to process what Roman can do in a year.” – NA...

"...why did yesterday's friend become today's foe?"

As sea levels rise, Venice’s options are running out. New research shows that even the most ambitious engineering may only delay the inevitable.

Morris, who was also a surrealist painter and broadcaster, was best known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape.

KristinaIf you grew up thinking life was neatly defined by cells, DNA, and a simple tree of evolution, you’re in for a shock. In the past few years, a wave of discoveries has quietly ripped up the old...

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war."

Explore a historical map of England, featuring iconic medieval landmarks from castles to cathedrals.

From musical Inuits to a child's fever dream, the greatest concept albums dazzle with surreal narratives and sheer unforgettable weirdness

The H.S. Hunley crew corpses didn’t show any signs of a struggle or panic, which stumped scientists for 17 years. Researchers just figured out why.

Biomimicry in architecture usually means borrowing structural logic from nature. Honeycomb patterns for strength, lotus leaves for water repellency, termite mounds for passive cooling. Thilina Liyanag...

Researchers at Winchester Cathedral are using DNA, radiocarbon dating, and osteology to uncover the identities of medieval kings and bishops buried in its mortuary chests.

The Fate of a Soviet Nuclear Sub Decades After It Sank: The Soviet sub K-278 Komsomolets was lost in 1989

Understanding eye color percentage reveals how human genetics shapes the colors we see in the iris. The iris is the colored part of the eye, and its appearance depends largely on how much melanin pigm...

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old lead bullet in the Holy Land with a darkly sarcastic inscription in Greek.

Archaeologists uncovered dozens of Samnite graves from the 3rd and 4th centuries B.C.E., including children buried with bronze warrior belts.

Lost beneath the waves, the ancient underwater world of Doggerland once stretched across Northern Europe, cloaked in rich, habitable forests even during the last Ice Age. Where the North Sea now churn...

Japan has approved ground-breaking stem-cell treatments for Parkinson's and severe heart failure, one of the manufacturers and media reports said Friday, with the therapies expected to reach patients ...

Huntley, who was serving a life sentence for murdering two schoolgirls, had been on life support following an attack by another inmate.

A new study shows Neanderthal men and human women were the most likely of all the pairings to go to town on each other.

SumiAcross windswept cliffs, quiet cow pastures, and forest clearings, Europe is scattered with enormous stones that no one alive remembers raising. You can be driving through Brittany or southern Eng...

KristinaThink about every living thing you have ever seen. A dog. A mushroom. The bacteria invisible on your fingertips right now. A towering redwood. You, reading this. Incredibly, shockingly, all of...

Latin for “Great Charter,” the Magna Carta was a key document forced upon King John of England in 1215 ruling the monarchy subject to, rather than above, the law.

The burials of some of history's most famous characters have been lost to time; providing an enthralling adventure for archaeologists.

How the world's biggest carbon emitter is now at the helm of a renewables revolution.

There’s something unsettling about an abandoned building. Knowing that it was once full of life, while it’s now full of cobwebs, moss, and broken glass, can be a bit disheartening. But just because a ...

The disease affected millions, but to this day has not been satisfactorily explained. The symptoms were pretty distressing.

These underwater batteries could potentially store hundreds of thousands of gigawatt-hours.

Mehmet Ali Ağca tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in May 1981.