A newfound underground labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids—some underwater—likely relates to Maya myths of a road through "hell" to the afterlife, archaeologists say.
The Maya believed the road to the afterlife ran through the underworld. Now an archaeologist says he's found the real-life version of that road in a Mexican cave.
The evolutionary ancestor of many of the world's deep-sea octopus species is still living, according to a new gene study of new species and other animals.
Buried under miles of ice, the Gamburtsev Mountains shouldn't exist. No nearby tectonic boundaries crashed together to form them, and a new study says they're not the result of volcanism, either.
The universe is racing toward something beyond it, a new study suggests. This "dark flow" may be evidence that our universe is part of something bigger—the multiverse.
A magnetic deflector field may someday repel harmful radiation away from spacecraft traveling to other planets and the moon, a new laboratory experiment shows.
Archaeologists say they have uncovered the 12,000-year-old grave of a shaman in Israel. The "witch doctor" had been buried with a human foot, 50 turtle shells, and other artifacts.
The Mexican "water monster" salamander has a slimy tail, plumage-like gills, and an odd "smile." The salamander may also have a date with oblivion, conservationists warn.
A team of Japanese geneticists has successfully created healthy clones of long-dead mice. The technique could someday be used to bring back extinct animals such as the woolly mammoth.
