Castabala’s story stretches back 2,700 years. In the Hellenistic period, it was known as Hieropolis, famous for its sanctuary ...

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Plastic found inside a dead black-footed albatross. Image by Dan Clark /USFWS. New research has found that even small amounts ...

While the semen fought off Staph regardless of beak color, the correlation between E. coli destruction and bill brightness ...

And that early result came from only 59 days of data.

Today, humanity’s collective head pain has become one of its most consistent companions. Nearly 3 billion people — about one in three humans — live with some form of headache disorder, according to ...

For decades, anthropologists have wondered whether kissing is an evolutionary thing or a unique cultural quirk we humans ...

Such lyrical poise is unusual in Mesopotamian literature. Most surviving texts are legal codes, myths, or royal inscriptions. One of the oldest surviving Babylonian clay tablets is a 3,700-year-old ...

Besides the amygdala, another important region of the brain, known as the hippocampus, is also involved in the fear response.

Second on the podium is the Borrowdale Volcanic Group in the Lake District of England. Taking the bronze is the Skye Lava ...

Hawaiʻi’s offshore waters host roughly 8,000 short-finned pilot whales. On an ecosystem scale, their collective appetite is ...

Clouds on Venus race across the sky at speeds of more than 100 meters per second, driven by incompletely understood atmospheric dynamics. Credit: Kevin M. Gill, CC BY 2.0 Imagine the catastrophic ...