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Roughly 2,000 years ago, one visitor to Egypt’s Valley of the Kings graffitied his name — Cikai Korran — eight times in Old Tamil, an Indian language. The prolific tagger joined several others in leaving dozens of inscriptions in ancient…

Mumps infections reveal that vaccine-preventable illnesses are resurging in the U.S.

Animals tend to have not one, but at least two names: a common name, and a scientific name.

Formal scientific names, although sometimes humorous or plain silly (see animals named after celebrities and Star Wars characters), give you information…

When the Spanish first reached the Andes, they found something surprising: Many of the locals had long, pointy heads. They discovered that the Collagua, an indigenous group in Peru that was conquered by the Inca, had a practice of shaping the…

In a discovery that astronomers are calling a “truly extraordinary” find, a powerful “space laser” mega-beam has been detected from across the cosmos.

The remarkable discovery was made by astronomers using the

Planting trees along coastlines with human-made shore defenses, such as dikes, could protect more than 140,000 people from flooding and save up to $800 million from flood damage globally each year, a new study finds.

Places that have mangroves,…

Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found.

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest…

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• A meteorite that plummeted into the roof and living room of a house in McDonough, Georgia, has now…

Chinese engineers have pulled off a stunning rescue, saving a tunnel boring machine (TBM) stuck 177 feet underground beneath the Yangtze River. What could have been a disaster for a key tunnel project turned into an impressive engineering…