On Menorca, sealed wooden and antler tubes preserved human hair dating to 1100–800 BCE. Chemical analysis revealed atropine, scopolamine, and ephedrine, showing Bronze Age Europeans used hallucinogens ...

In a world marked by financial crises, geopolitical instability and ecological disasters, this edition of the biennial clings to the idea that it is too late to be pessimistic.

Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains.

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...

If ultimately true, the universe will reach its maximum size around 11 billion years from now. At that point, physics (and ...