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The martial artifacts found at the temple complex were likely offerings that an ancient kingdom made to their chief god.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and producing a stunning new image.

The human body has a number of mechanisms that prevent you from holding your breath until you suffocate.

Being a Roman gladiator was a bloody business, but did all gladiators really fight to the death?

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a “bridge” of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles.

All species in the antechinus genus have the same frenzied mating system, where males have sex until they die from organ failure, then the females gobble up their corpses.

In this extract from “The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World’s Spiders,” author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, blood and pillbugs.

No one knows for sure when steel was invented, but some of the earliest examples crop up in the first millennium B.C. in Central and South Asia.

Sept. 21, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.