New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

The human race is presented like a museum exhibit—a grimly compelling concept, but one that makes for a glitchy play.

Heavy rain and flooding hit Hawaii’s Big Island and Maui, with flash flood warnings issued across the region. Bay Street in ...

The singer-songwriter Neko Case’s new memoir is a superhero origin story. But here, instead of an anonymous mugger gunning down the parents, sending pearls scattering over the pavement, it’s the ...

While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the Navy was quietly conducting a series of tests to see if humans could live ...

Rescuers search for victims near the wreckages of vehicles in an area affected by a landslide following a flash flood that killed multiple people in Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia, Thursday, Jan.

The U.S Army Corps of Engineers announced last Friday it’s moving forward with an altered version of the Yazoo Pumps, a flood relief project that the ... Hopson told Mississippi Today on Tuesday.

Evidence of the Zanclean Deluge, the ancient megaflood that transformed the Mediterranean ... The Zanclean Deluge was a drastic flooding event in the late Miocene. The colossal flood reconnected the ...

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