Category science

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

How does creeping stress ignite a cataclysmic earthquake? A new study has answers.

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

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive head trauma. Here’s how it affects the brain and who is most at risk.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars’ present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system’s planets onto a different course.

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

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

There’s an idea that larger muscles burn a lot more energy while at rest. But is that true?

Research suggests that alcohol causes cancer through at least five different mechanisms.

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