For years, scientists believed the “giant impact” that formed the Moon melted and reshaped the entire young Earth, erasing its original composition. The new MIT findings challenge that view.

Scientists discovered true teeth growing on the head of the spotted ratfish, a distant shark relative. The toothed structure, called a tenaculum, helps males hold onto females during mating. Genetic ...

Explore the bustling Athenian Agora where Socrates roamed, sparking philosophical discussions with his Socratic irony method.

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The findings help explain why a series of small earthquakes over a period of about three years suddenly culminated in the ...

A groundbreaking international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon.

Archaeologists excavating an ancient well in eastern Croatia have discovered the skeletons of seven men whose bodies had been ...

Learn how an unconventional folk cure landed one woman in the hospital, yet the idea that frogs hold pain-relieving powers ...

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

The findings suggest that the acquisition of the modern NOVA1 variant may have protected us from the detrimental effects of ...

Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in ...

Vadodara: MS University is set to open its doors to learners of all ages so they can explore India's ancient wisdom. The ...