When the James Webb Space Telescope began photographing galaxies from the universe's earliest chapters, astronomers ran into ...
Remains of a right hand belonging to the Neanderthal individual from Abauntz, shown from different angles. Credit: Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA Six hand bones from Abauntz Cave in northern Spain are ...
A small village church just outside Lugo, in northwest Spain, has been described for decades as a plain medieval building. A new study argues that it is about 300 years older than that, and that it ...
Migdol Temple at Pella in Jordan from the Middle Bronze Age, destroyed in the Iron Age. Credit: Ben Churcher. Pella Project, University of Sydney / Wikimedia Commons Seven pottery cups from a communal ...
View of the apse and choir of the mountain-top church during excavations in 2022. Credit: A. Guicheteau, Inrap Archaeologists excavating a wooded hill in Burgundy have found a large church, buildings ...
There are more than 8,000 species of amphibians on Earth, and not one of them lives in the sea. Fewer than 2% tolerate any salt at all, and even those have limits. It is a striking gap. Whales, sea ...
Beside the airport of Larnaca, on the south-east coast of Cyprus, there is a salt lake. About 3,500 years ago it was a sheltered bay, and on its shore stood a port city of up to 50 hectares (124 acres ...
Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils they simply rot away. Archaeologists therefore tend to reconstruct the ...
On Tuesday, October 20, a team in southeastern Spain lifted a block of stone out of a wall where it had been sitting for ...
When an electron meets a positron, both vanish. Their mass turns into energy and nothing is left of either particle. That is the main reason positrons are so hard to study. There is no jar to keep ...
About 2,000 years ago, while Augustus ruled Rome, a leftover patch of ice in the Canadian Arctic stopped shrinking and began ...
On a gravel plain in northern Western Sahara, with no shade for miles, there is a heap of stones 54.5 meters (179 feet) long.
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