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Hundreds of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, have been found with genomes far larger th...

A new amoebal virus has over 90 percent of its genome that is unknown to science...

A new exploration into the city’s underbelly has systematically cataloged the system and cleared it ...

New research from an international team of scientists now attempts to answer those questions and bel...

With the help of some mud wasps, an inventive new dating method has revealed that a collection of Ab...

Just like a joke, optical illusions can have a punchline that we did not expect. Especially if the o...

The findings provide important new insight into human history and the disbursement of Neanderthal an...

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Researchers think this Civil War-era glass bottle may have been a “witch bottle” used to ward off ev...

Takabuti died under unknown circumstances more than 2,000 years earlier, yet at the time the well-pr...

An ancient Roman cookbook contains a recipe that is strikingly similar to the modern burger....

The paintings date back to between 5,500 and 10,000 BCE....

As was pointed out by space writer Miriam Kramer – and hundreds of other Twitter Trekkies – the “ne...

Researchers have been able to reconstruct the sound of an ancient Egyptian...

In 79 CE when Mount Vesuvius erupted, the intense burst of heat turned one poor soul’s brain into gl...

New forensic analysis suggests that many victims of Mount Vesuvius died an even more grisly and prol...

Various items belonging to Alan Turing and stolen from Sherbourne School in 1984 have finally been r...

Donald Trump is under fire for a thinly-veiled attack on 17-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg...