O ver 99.999 percent of Earth's gold is locked away within the Earth’s metallic core, buried beneath 3,000 kilometers (1,864 ...

There are just four villages in the Peruvian Andes where khipus are kept, though the knowledge of how to read them was lost ...

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We don’t recommend taking romantic advice from a songbird, but if you did, it might tell you to look after yourself, the kids ...

Researchers have broken the record for the world's first successful petabit-class transmission over more than 1,000 ...

The mysteries of gargalesis have tickled the minds of people for centuries. Thinkers from the Greek philosophers Socrates and ...

A British toddler has become the youngest ever member of the exclusive high-IQ (intelligence quotient) society, Mensa. The ...

Non-vegetarians, it seems, may well be kinder and more “normal” than vegans and vegetarians – but their meat-eschewing peers ...

F ragments of ancient household item unidentified for 90 years after being excavated have been found to be pieces of baby ...

This galaxy existed when the cosmos was just 2 percent of its current age. That means its light had to travel for 13.53 ...

At the moment, Kilauea is shooting large amounts of volcanic rock and lava into the sky, with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reporting that the spray reached 300 meters (1,000 feet) into ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the environment to technology and archaeology.