We like to think we're the smartest humans who've ever lived. We've got AI, quantum computers, and rockets that land ...

In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports ...

Ancient Japanese writings are guiding cutting-edge technology as researchers investigate medieval solar storms.

The Great Pyramid has seen the rise and fall of powerful dynasties for 4,600 years. It was built as a tomb for the Fourth ...

Traditional loko iʻa aquaculture ponds fed Hawaiians for thousands of years, but through the 19th and 20th centuries, most were abandoned. Today, they are not only staging a comeback, but providing a ...

Mr. Newport is a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and the author of “Deep Work.” Today we take for granted that diet and exercise are vitally important for our health and ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe. If you think ancient ...

Erich von Däniken proposed that monumental structures such as the pyramids could have been built with help from aliens. Stefan Baumann Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without ...

The Hindu goddess Kali — cobalt-skinned, four-armed, and adorned with a necklace of severed human heads — raises a blood-soaked blade above her head, the tool of her particularly ferocious trade. Her ...

A few meters below the former site of Seville’s 1992 World Expo, a promising climate experiment blending ancient technology and modern science is underway. Rows of black pipes run along the ceiling ...