A helmet up for auction in London is a well-preserved example of the "Corinthian" helmets used by many hoplite warriors.

"The same physical process will take place in both cases — the explosive spring of the bent plates will release in the same ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in ...

"Recycling" an already transplanted organ could help save lives, but the procedure comes with additional risks, physicians ...

Meanwhile, inactive muscle and brown fat use little energy: One pound (0.45 kilogram) of relaxed muscle burns 6 calories and ...

Research suggests that alcohol drives cancer by at least five different mechanisms, with the risk of cancer increasing the ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

Common degus clean themselves and communicate with urine, and they can detach their own tails to escape predators.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...