The quake that triggered the December 26 tsunami has increased stress on nearby faults, making another major South Asian quake more likely, scientists say.
The time is now for rich nations to share cash, food, and knowledge with the hundreds of millions of people enduring extreme poverty and hunger, a recent UN report says.
CT scans of Tutankhamun found no physical evidence of murder. But they did reveal unusual features, including a broken leg that may have helped kill him.
Ancient artifacts unearthed on a college campus are prompting archaeologists to rethink theories about Native Americans' early presence in North Carolina.
Tiny fossils found in October do in fact represent a new human species, and its smart but small brain could overturn decades of evolution theory, experts say.
The introduction of the electric refrigerator in 1929 spelled the end of most annual ice harvests, but not all—as a town in upstate New York demonstrates each year.
Medieval manuscripts "behave" like organisms, concludes one researcher who applied population biology theory to calculate the survival rate of ancient texts.
The European Union government now has 20 official languages, and its annual translation costs are set to rise to 1.3 billion dollars (U.S.). Is the body becoming burdened by multilingualism?
This Black History Month we examine the current candlepower of the book that helped ignite the Civil War. Is its influence still incendiary—or burned out?
