Does this mean that the cruel torture ritual described in the Viking saga was actually performed…?
For decades, historians have debated whether a notoriously violent...
More and more people have their eyes lasered, even when there is no medical need. As the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG) indicates, the number...
The Vikings once built houses similar to this one in Greenland. (Image: ManuelVelasco / iStock)
A good thousand years ago, the Vikings reached Greenland and...
It certainly does not seem inconceivable, researchers have to conclude after research in the Martian Atacama desert.
Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the driest...
Artist's impression of "Baby Yingliang" in its egg. (Image: LIDA XING)
He is called "Baby Yingliang": paleontologists report on a dinosaur embryo preserved in...
Anthrax pathogen Bacillus anthracis. (Image: Dr_Microbe / iStock)
The venom of the anthrax pathogen Bacillus anthracis can be fatal, but it may also have...
The embryo reveals the surprising way tiny dinosaurs folded inside their eggs.
Quite a few fossilized dinosaur eggs have been recovered over the past century....
NASA releases a bizarre audio clip captured during Juno's brief flyby past the largest moon in our solar system.
Last June, spacecraft Juno skimmed past...
Putting large mammals out in the Arctic to slow climate change makes little sense, according to researchers.
Global warming is thawing permafrost; the...