The team headed to Harvard University’s Peabody Museum in Cambridge, where they were granted permission to collect the yeast ...

Hundreds of Mayan artifacts have been found underwater in a Guatemalan lake, according to the Daily Mail. Among the trove of relics were weaponry, like a stone mace head and an obsidian blade, which ...

During excavations at the Rašaška archaeological site, researchers uncovered the headless and contorted remains of a suspected vampire.

In 2015, an Australian health influencer named Belle Gibson had built a wellness empire. By just 23, she’d launched a popular app called The Whole Pantry and written an accompanying cookbook. Her ...

For decades, researchers have been exploring eastern Spain’s Cova de les Dones, studying its Paleolithic rock art as well as its connections to early Iberian communities. Now, a recent expedition by ...

A 2,500-year-old burial site nestled away in the Negev Highlands was recently unearthed by archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority. The discovery is shedding light on ancient trade routes ...

In July 2018, archaeologists unearthed a sprawling, ancient Egyptian “funeral home” beneath Saqqara. The trove of discoveries pointed toward a substantial funeral industry in ancient Egypt and has ...

The 1915 silent film The Heart of Lincoln has long been listed by the Library of Congress as one of the 7,000 pre-sound movies that’s been lost to history. But thanks to a sharp-eyed intern at the ...

On Dec. 8, 2004, a 25-year-old man named Nathan Gale went to a heavy metal concert at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio — but he wasn’t there to watch the show. The lead act of the night ...

Long before Antarctica became the frozen desert we know it as today, it was the temperate, forested home of one of Earth’s earliest modern bird species: Vegavis iaai. V. iaai thrived in Antarctic ...

Big Pun’s death in February 2000 came just two years after he became the first Latino rapper to go platinum. He had taken the music industry by storm, and it seemed that nothing could stop his rise to ...