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Deep beneath the bustling, traffic-choked streets of Naples, a physics-based technique revealed a feature not previously detected by conventional archaeological methods. Scientists have found a secret burial chamber reported at about ten metres below the surface using an advanced imaging technique based on cosmic rays.

Scientists have been given a rare glimpse into Neolithic social life from a prehistoric cemetery in northern France, where scientists reconstructed a giant family tree that spans seven generations. Experts have used ancient DNA and an archaeological find to reconstruct a detailed family network of 64 people who lived nearly 7,000 years ago.

Researchers believe a glacier transported Stonehenge's six-tonne Altar Stone from northeast Scotland to the now-submerged landscape of Doggerland, leaving Neolithic communities to complete the final leg of its remarkable journey.

Anthropic has warned that future AI systems may be capable of improving themselves and creating more advanced successors without human intervention.

Most people think of social interaction as a conscious choice. You see someone, decide whether to approach them, and then act.

Two daggers were found among the objects wrapped with Tutankhamun's mummy in Tutankhamun's tomb. One blade gleamed with the familiar lustre of gold, but it was the second, simple iron blade that quietly ignited a historical debate that lasted a century.

For decades, parts of the scientific community accepted the Piltdown fossils as genuine. A cache of fossilised bones discovered in an English gravel pit was proclaimed the "missing link" between apes and humans.

If you thought Triceratops had awesome headgear, wait until you hear about his older, weirder cousin. In 2024, scientists discovered a new species of dinosaur in the badlands of northern Montana, not far from the Canadian border.

For decades, dinosaurs like Velociraptor have dominated our imagination as fast-moving predators that chased prey across dusty landscapes. But deep in the fossil-rich rocks of southern Patagonia, scientists have uncovered a very different kind of raptor, one that may have spent much of its life standing quietly beside rivers, waiting for fish.

Somewhere beneath the frozen soils of the Arctic, life has been waiting patiently for millennia. Long before the rise of modern civilisation, before the construction of the Great Pyramids, and even before many of today's ecosystems existed in their current form, microscopic organisms became trapped within layers of permafrost.