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The most severe mass extinction in Earth’s history occurred with almost no early warning signs, according to a …

Electrically charged volcanic ash short-circuited the Earth’s atmosphere in 1815, causing global poor weather and Napoleon’s defeat, says …

New insights into the evolution and eventual disappearance of Portus Pisanus, the lost harbor of Pisa, have been revealed. Although …

You probably know Easter Island as “the place with the giant stone heads.” This remote island, 2,300 miles …

Cannons, hand grenades, and up to a thousand soldiers were on board the large Swedish warship when it …

Even with a highly skilled neurosurgeon, the most effective anesthesia, and all the other advances of modern medicine, …

Centuries ago, a ship sank in the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia. The wooden hull of …

Trade and social networking helped our Homo sapiens prehistoric humans survive a climate-changing volcanic eruption 40,000 years ago, giving …

With X-ray imaging at SLAC’s synchrotron, scientists uncovered a 6th century hidden medical text translation of a book …

Bone measurement analysis indicates that the remains found on a remote island in the South Pacific were likely …