It was Tetracheilostoma carlae, the Barbados threadsnake. It’s the smallest known snake in the world. The species had not ...

Tucked away in storage at a Berlin museum, a modest wooden shrine had gone largely unstudied for decades. It looked ordinary ...

Beneath a public square in Athens lies an engineering marvel that has been dormant for centuries. A part of it passes under a ...

You may be surprised to learn that the human brain, often studied under the lens of its electrical and chemical activity, also releases light. It’s a very faint, invisible light that has sparked a ...

Aging has always been tied hand in hand with the passage of time: a slow and steady process. A little less energy here, a few ...

This description of the teething process comes from a 3,000-year-old medical handbook from ancient Assyria and Babylonia. The ...

Across the board, “blue places” dominated the nostalgic landscape. About a third of all memories involved bodies of water. In ...

From Roman artifacts to Picasso's gowns, this museum lets you hold the past. Most museums show just 3% of what they own. All ...

These discoveries represent the earliest definitive example of human cannibalism in Europe. Earlier claims exist ...

However, giving birth, and looking after a newborn, would be far more difficult in zero gravity. After all, in space, nothing stays still. Fluids float. So do people. That makes delivering a baby and ...

Growing a baby in space sounds like science fiction. Here’s why it might stay that way.