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Prehistoric Women Were Stronger than Elite Rowing Teams TodayWomen did a lot of the heavy lifting during the Neolithic era.
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3 Roman-Era Shipwrecks Found Off Egyptian CoastThe shipwreck divers also found a crystal carving of a head from the Roman-era.
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Rare 400-Year-Old Map Traces Indigenous Roots in MexicoCreated in 1593, the manuscript has been acquired by the U.S. Library of Congress.
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Climate Partly to Blame for German Migration to America in 19th CenturyA new study shows how poor climate conditions can set off a chain of events that leads to mass migration.
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Are the Museum of the Bible's Dead Sea Scrolls Fakes?Scholars are still debating whether the 13 fragments are legitimate scraps of the ancient Hebrew Bible or modern forgeries.
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8,000-Year-Old Rock Art Includes the World's Oldest Images of DogsArchaeologists have identified what may be the world's oldest images of dogs. The 8,000-year-old hunting scenes even feature some dogs on leashes.
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Chopin's Pickled Heart Reveals Cause of His DeathThe Polish composer likely died of tuberculosis complications.
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Lab-Grown Skin Saves Dying Boy with Rare DiseaseScientists created fully functional skin for a 7-year-old boy with a genetic skin disease. Here's how they accomplished the medical feat.
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Tasmanian Treasure: Rare 17th-Century Map of Australia ResurfacesConservators have restored a rare map of Australia, from the era before Europeans had fully explored the continent.
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This Tiny Detail Revealed a Painting Was Looted by the NazisA small, repaired hole in the painting allowed researchers to confirm the artwork as Nazi loot.
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Was Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda Murdered?Forensic scientists rejected cancer as Pablo Neruda's immediate cause of death, which may fuel speculations that the Chilean poet was assassinated.
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Rare Footage Captures Giant Jellyfish Living Under Arctic IceSurprisingly, adult jellyfish survive the winter under the Arctic's thick sea ice.
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Photos: Discoveries from a Bronze Age BattlefieldIn northeastern Germany, archaeologists have discovered a battlefield, more than 3,000 years old, along the banks of the Tollense Valley.
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Europe's Oldest Battlefield Yields Clues to Fighters' Identities
At Europe's oldest battlefield, archaeologists found new clues about who fought on the skeleton-strewn grounds some 3,250 years ago.
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Did Easter Islanders Have Early Contact with South Americans?A new study of human bones found no trace of Native American DNA on the island. Debate over pre-European cultural mash-ups continues.
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Ax Linked to Ötzi the Iceman Found North of the AlpsArchaeologists found a copper blade in Switzerland that's just like the ax Ötzi the famous "Iceman" was carrying when he died.
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Nobel Prize Awarded for Sensational Gravitational Waves DiscoveryThree scientists who were integral in detecting these so-called gravitational waves for the first time were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics this morning.
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Marine Invaders: Japanese Tsunami Brought 300 Species to US ShoresPlastic made the mass migration possible.
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Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded for Work on Biological ClockThree scientists who made key discoveries on the workings of our internal clock have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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Rose Gold Jewelry Was All the Rage with Ancient ColombiansArchaeologists recently found an unexpected preference for pinkish gold in Colombian jewelry from the first millennium.
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Giant Rodent: 18-Inch Rat Species DiscoveredA new species of rat, measuring 18 inches long, has been discovered in the South Pacific, the first time in 80 years a new rat species has been found there.
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4,000-Year-Old Jar of Headless Toads Discovered in Jerusalem BurialThe jar might have been a funeral offering to feed the dead in the afterlife.
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Photos: A Bronze Age Burial with Headless ToadsArchaeologists found more than 60 ancient graves in a Bronze Age cemetery in Jerusalem. In one they found a jar full of the remains of decapitated toads.
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World's Largest Aircraft Starts Engine TestsFor the first time, the private spaceflight company Stratolaunch tested all six of the engines on a colossal airplane with the largest wingspan of any aircraft in the world.
