Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

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The number of H-1B visas approved for Indian-based companies has plummeted, according to a National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis of government data. Only three Indian companies ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure named Cakradhara points to an acacia tree as a symbol of the cycle of ...

Nearly 40% of the land on Earth is covered not by forests, or ice, but by vast expanses of open grasslands like this one in western Maharashtra, India. Now, scientists are turning to an untapped ...

The Macomb County Public Works Department will continue to use 2,500-year-old technology to ensure residents in the St. Clair Shores area can continue to flush freely and avoid basement flooding and ...

Identifying signs of life in ancient rocks is hard. It is not enough to find organic molecules—rocks of all sorts contain them but “organic” just means the molecules contain chains of carbon atoms.

Looking back at 2017, it’s clear that a lot of cool new technology inventions came out. Some of them were pretty wild, others just made everyday life a little bit easier. It was a year where robots ...

Step through the gates of Olympus and you meet a reality far more exacting than myth: stone fatigue, seismic stress, polluted air and the relentless wear of millions of visitors. Today’s conservators ...