Wood engineered for strength and safety offers architects an alternative to carbon-intensive steel and concrete.

In early September, residents along the coast of Placentia Bay in Newfoundland, Canada discovered hundreds of white blobs of ...

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Dating to the mid-fourth century AD, it is the oldest archaeologically documented church in the country and provides ...

For years, scholars believed that “Fimbulwinter” may have been based on real events that occurred in and around the year 536 ...

To boost their super senses of smell, these humble little creatures might be manipulating nanoparticles with sound.

Scientists have set up and observed a single electron bond between two carbon molecules. A traditional “single bond” is ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause ...

Scientists recently discovered a new species of worm lizard—a strange limb-less lizard that looks a bit like an oversized ...

A 30-year-long study of a small population of marine snail shows how evolution can adapt to environmental changes quite ...

A Roman gladiator’s tomb from the third century A.D. was uncovered in modern-day Turkey. Instead of the gladiator, ...

Ruins of the Roman-era port of Aquileia have been submerged in northeast Italy’s Grado Lagoon for some time as the waters of ...