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By A. R. WilliamsDuring Egypt’s pyramid age, a well-connected man named Wahtye died and was laid to rest in the vast royal cemetery that...

The Thanksgiving Day Celebration Originated From a MassacreIn 1621, though Pilgrims celebrated a feast, it was not repeated in the years to follow. In...

By Jamie SeidelPlanet Earth is alive. Deep beneath its skin, its life blood — rivers of molten iron — pulse around its core. And...

by Malcolm RitterAt Jef Boeke's lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.But he...

by Eric Mack Astronomers first spotted an asteroid about as long as a 737 passenger jet on Sunday and analyzed its path to determine...

By Sarah GibbensThere's perhaps no doctor in history more famous than Hippocrates. Many medical students today still swear the ancient doctor's oath to adhere...

By Margi Murphy STARGAZERS have received “some very peculiar signals” while observing a distant dwarf star. Experts listening in at the Arecibo Observatory were on a...

By Charles Q. Choi,DNA in a fossil from a young girl has revealed that a mysterious extinct human lineage occupied the middle of...

The first modern humans may have emerged up to 350,000 years ago—170,000 years earlier than previously thought. Analysis of ancient DNA has allowed scientists...

With a science paper published after his death, Stephen Hawking has revived debate on a deeply divisive question for cosmologists: Is our Universe just...