6+ hour, 55+ min ago   (483+ words) A body pulled from the Arctic ice in 1859 has finally been given a name. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have used DNA from living descendants to identify four more sailors from Sir John Franklin‘s doomed 1845 expedition, among them…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (489+ words) Hidden away inside an Austrian crypt for centuries, a mysterious mummy has finally revealed why it survived when others did not. A remarkably preserved 18th-century mummy in an Austrian church crypt has revealed an embalming technique never previously documented by…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (657+ words) For more than 300 million years, a piece of Earth’s ancient history remained hidden beneath the surface. A new discovery inside a U.S. cave is now revealing the sharks that once lived in a vanished world. Deep beneath Kentucky, scientists have uncovered…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (506+ words) Some discoveries are made in laboratories. These ancient tools were found by a kid on vacation who noticed what others almost missed. A boy who once dug curious black stones out of the mud during a family vacation has grown…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (549+ words) A sonar scan spotted what looked like a shipwreck. Nearly 6,200 feet down, the seafloor held something stranger. During the initial scan, it appeared that the sonar reading resembled an object that could be a vessel; a group of large, solid…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (403+ words) They digitally stripped away the forest near Machu Picchu and found roads hidden beneath the vegetation, revealing over 2.5 km of lost routes. More than 2.5 kilometers of previously undocumented roads have been found beneath the thick forest around Machu Picchu. Laser…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (574+ words) Venus crushed landers in minutes. Venera 13 was built to last just 32, then it kept transmitting far beyond expectations from the brutal surface below. The spacecraft had been designed for a surface lifetime of 32 minutes. NASA later described its endurance as…...