LHASA — In Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, the ancient Tibetan script, which dates back over 1,300 years, is now ...

A cadre of iron-rich extraterrestrial particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere when they fell to Earth millions of years ago.

New findings from the mysterious Antikythera shipwreck reveal an ancient device that defied its time.

At 77 years old, Geoffrey Hinton has a new calling in life. Like a modern-day prophet, the Nobel Prize winner is raising alarms about the dangers of uncontrolled and unregulated artific ...

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare ...

Healthcare is the only industry where we tolerate sky-high prices, ancient technology and endless waiting … and then call it compassion. We say it's either a human right or a business. | Without the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 34,000-year-old mystery that's rewriting our understanding of early human behavior, and our ...

Astronomers may have figured out where the mysterious blobs embedded in Mars' mantle originated.

Gout could be treated by an ancient gene that humans lost millions of years ago, suggests new research. A form of arthritis ...

With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they ...

Since few well-preserved human skeletal remains from this period have been uncovered in Southeast Asia, this near-complete find with its DNA preserved was already significant.

Those who grew up in the 20th and 21st centuries have spent their lives in an environment saturated with cautionary tales about technology and human error, projections of ancient flood myths onto ...