The evolution of technology owes much to the systems of coding and encoding that have been refined over millennia.

Archaeologists working in Peru, assisted by artificial intelligence, have discovered 303 previously unknown giant symbols carved in the Nazca Desert. The carvings include birds, plants, spiders, ...

The concept is grounded in the discovery of a remarkably well-preserved 3,775-year-old Eastern red cedar log buried in clay soil in Quebec, Canada.

Prehistoric peoples may have created the world's oldest lunisolar calendar thousands of years ago to mark a calamitous comet ...

Astrology and astronomy. These two words sound alike, and some people even use them interchangeably, but they couldn’t be ...

In the heart of the rugged landscape of Hardangervidda, a vast mountainous plateau in Norway, a group of archaeologists, on ...

KAWARAMACHI, Japan (AP) — Time seems to stop here. Women sit in a small circle, quietly, painstakingly stitching patterns on balls the size of an orange, a stitch at a time. At the center of the ...

For SMBHs to form under these conditions, molecular hydrogen would have needed to be somehow suppressed, which would require an additional source of radiation from within these ancient clouds. Recent ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2027, aims to capture high-resolution images of galaxies and cosmic ...

Researchers uncovered evidence of puberty stages in the bones of 13 ancient humans between 10 and 20 years old ... “Our research helps to humanize these teens in a way that simply studying stone tools ...

Some chapters of human history are more poignant to revisit than others. The Battle of Waterloo ended a 23-year war, but thousands were killed on June 18, 1815, when allied armies led by the Duke of W ...

Now in its 16th year, the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition aims to highlight amateur space photographers from around the globe. This year's winning image was taken by Ryan Imperio ...