Archaeologists in Austria unearthed a rare ivory pyx and marble shrine from a 6th-century abandoned church. The pyx features unique biblical imagery, including Moses on Mount Sinai and a rare ...

Kaons have several known common ways of decaying, but the one in this paper is so rare that scientists weren’t sure it ...

An ancient Norwegian cult site was active until the time a landslide struck in roughly 800 B.C. Since then, nobody has known ...

The 1.8-million-year-old jawbone, found in a site no bigger than two parking spots, upends the timeline of humans migrating ...

Scientists have discovered which animal was the first to branch off from our collective common ancestor. For years, debate had raged over whether the first to diverge was the sea sponge or the comb ...

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are some holes ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods, which ...

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“Rather than actively shaping experience, the thalamus (if it is considered at all) has typically been relegated to a role in gating contents into consciousness,” the team explains in its paper.

“Using newer mathematical tools, my colleague and I have demonstrated a new theory that may accurately describe the universe. Instead of basing the theory on the warping of space and time, we ...

During a trip, language could become temporarily irrelevant, researchers say. That speechlessness may be linked to sensing deeper truths.

An open field in Scotland was set to be dotted with the homes of a fresh new subdivision. But right as the project was ...