Mystery

Science & Nature In 218 BCE, the Carthaginian general crossed the rugged mountain range with 40,000 men, 7,000 horses and 37 war elephants. The post...

Science & Nature New research clearly links thawing permafrost to toxic shift—and offers a way to predict it. The post The mystery of Alaska’s orange...

Science & Nature Paleontologists from University College London and the University of Cambridge say the large predatory dinosaurs’ tiny arms evolved alongside massive heads...

Science & Nature A new “X-ray dot” found by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory – which could look like this artist’s illustration released on April...

Science & Nature A new high-precision calculation of a key component underpinning the magnetic moment of the muon, a heavier cousin of the electron,...

Science & Nature Critical information about this unknown boy was destroyed during World War II. The post Mystery item spotted in 2,000-year-old Egyptian child mummy...

New analyses of lunar basalts returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission are offering fresh insight into one of the Moon’s largest impact structures. By examining potassium isotopes preserved in rocks from the South Pole–Aitken Basin, researchers uncovered evidence that a massive ancient collision triggered widespread volatile loss and may have reshaped the Moon’s interior. Credit: Shutterstock

My earliest memory is of a faraway Maya pyramid. A lofty, stony thing in the Guatemalan jungle, with steps leading to a doorway—impossibly enticing to my three-year-old self looking upward, determined to scramble up to the top. But my mom would have none of it. She and my father were both archaeologists and worked at