“We’ll undergo the same fate as the people on Easter Island.” Frank Fenner, virologist Eminent Australian scientist Professor Frank Fenner, who helped to wipe out smallpox, predicts...

The Einstein Cross is a gravitationally lensed quasar that is quadruply imaged, hence its name, Einstein Cross, forming a nearly perfect cross, with the lensing galaxy at its...

An international team of astronomers in 2004 identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish...

Several thousand years ago the evolution of social organizations in the form of cities brought a new dynamic to the planet that seems to be uniquely human: People...

“Nearly all civilizations have their own origin or creation myth. Now we can use archaeogenetics to tell a global story...