While most of the world's oceans are absorbing less and less CO₂, the Southern Ocean around Antarctica remains a stable climate buffer. Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have now discovered ...
Melting icebergs are creating hidden arctic homes as disappearing glaciers reshape the deep ocean. Scientists found that ...
Alfred the Great defended Wessex from the Vikings. Researchers have been searching for his remains for years after their ...
Discover how marine heat waves in the Arctic have surged since the 1980s, with events lasting over a year due to melting ice and warming temperatures, disrupting ecosystems and impacting global ...
An autonomous underwater vehicle named LASSIE has spent 48 hours continuously monitoring the seafloor beneath Antarctica’s ...
The Founding Fathers left behind extensive writings, but new discoveries continue to deepen historians' understanding of America's most influential figures. Advances in archaeology, DNA analysis and ...
A newly found notebook documenting the composer’s lessons with a student includes seven previously unknown compositions. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown In 1778, a young musician named Marie-Louise-Philippine ...
In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...
A volunteer cataloging naval letters came across a copy of the document, printed 250 years ago in New Hampshire. “It was a thrilling find,” he said. By Isabella Kwai Isabella Kwai reported from the ...
Archaeologists discovered an ancient Maya city that was hidden in the Mexican jungle for more than a millennium. Located in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in Campeche, at the base of the Yucatán ...
Demystify glaze chemistry in this five-day intensive that blends science with studio experimentation. Participants will mix and test daily glaze batches, learning to understand the relationships ...
An unassuming fragment of fossil bone collected four decades ago has turned out to be the first piece of dinosaur bone ever discovered on Antarctica. Today, Antarctica is known for its thick ice cap ...