People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to ...

Why is human culture -- the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations -- so much more powerful than animal cultures?

Discover what really happens when you die — the brain's final surge, chemical releases, and the mysterious experiences at the ...

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors, say researchers.

There’s just one catch: every atom in your body would be fully disassembled to the quantum level, effectively leaving your ...

Several science and health experts are in Calgary to kick off a weeklong campaign aimed at educating Canadians about the ...

First identified by archaeologists in 1978, the site was initially found to be home to at least 70 hominin footprints ...

In recent years, there has been a rising interest in combining traditional natural medicines with essential nutrients to ...

Light as a healing tool remains part science and part mystery. Ancient practices using sunlight laid the groundwork for a field that has now evolved into sophisticated therapies for both mental and ...

Now a new study has found that the impression on the shroud could not have been made by a three-dimensional human body, but was perhaps from a bas-relief – a shallow carving. To reach this ...

The eerie site, which served a community for over a century, now appears frozen in time from the moment it was deserted - ...