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With almost every shovel of sand shifted in Egypt, another artifact comes to light.

The Canadian professor has an extensive collection posted on his site.

National Parks have long been a staple of American wildlife conversation. Why not have some underwater?

The Middle East isn’t just the geographic center of the planet. With so much activism on different sides regarding the region, particularly with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict recently stoked […]

The new book “Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs” documents 100 archaeological discoveries that changed the world.

We should not romanticize ancient Egyptian culture.

Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.

What is Captain America doing in ancient Mesopotamia?

Of the world’s 300 honey varieties, none is stranger and more dangerous than mad honey.

It will be able to produce 22 million pounds of cultivated meat annually.

True north, magnetic north, and grid north have aligned. There’s also a connection to James Bond.

These salamanders are helping unlock the mysteries of brain evolution and regeneration.

Spicy foods are enjoyed the world over, but scientists don’t know why people partake in culinary masochism.

In a nod to its addictive qualities, it was first dubbed “Some More.”

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A gigantic bacterium evolved differently than fundamental models of biology would have predicted. Simply put, these bacteria shouldn’t exist.

Religion fosters traits that are helpful in a school system that relies on authority figures and rewards people who follow the rules.

The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.

When reading critiques that inflate the uncertainty of science, ask these 7 questions.

It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?

The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.

A 5,300-year-old mummy teaches us the global history of tattoos.

Searching for happiness in the midst of personal or societal crises are nothing new.

The questions about which massive structures to build, and where, are actually very hard to answer. Infrastructure is always about the future: It takes years to construct, and lasts for years beyond that.

The eastern inner core located beneath Indonesia’s Banda Sea is growing faster than the western side beneath Brazil.

The experience of life flashing before one’s eyes has been reported for well over a century, but where’s the science behind it?

Digitized logbooks from the 1800s reveal a steep decline in strike rate for whalers.

Avocado evolved in the warming climates of Central America during the Neogene period, roughly 10 million years ago.

Thanks to modern technology, we can reexamine our assumptions about ancient warriors.

Invented in 1902 by an American, the ‘Middle East’ is all over the place.