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Since 1992, the continent has lost more than 3.3 trillion tons of ice, triggering a quarter-inch rise in global sea levels
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Engineers have not received any transmissions from the Opportunity rover since Sunday
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The site-specific installation by British artist duo Semiconductor revisits the universe’s first moments
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"Lost" data from the 1970s helped scientists solve an enduring lunar mystery
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A new study compares painted versus photographed depictions of lightning bolts' offshooting branches
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New audio recordings by the museum feature roughly 40 instruments, from Ming dynasty lute to the world’s oldest surviving piano
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The 30 bundles of £1 and £5 notes were likely stashed away amidst wartime uncertainty
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The late activist helped organize the Birmingham marches and educated the disenfranchised about their constitutional rights
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The 1938 show celebrated works by German Expressionists, defended artists on world stage
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Hunger elicits similar responses as emotions, but it only turns into "hanger" when people are already primed with negative feelings
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Survival rates among later Inca cultures was significantly higher. However, the 19th-century soldiers were facing trauma caused by industrial-age warfare
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'The Tomb of the Athlete' includes four bodies, a coin, offerings of chicken, rabbit and lamb and strigils, the symbol of Roman sportsmen
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Like its hobbit namesake, Odontonia bagginsi is also quite small
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The gem, which was was recently bought at auction, was likely found in China in the 1700s and was once owned by Russia's Catherine the Great
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A new analysis of the 13-ton red stone pukao show the carvings were likely rolled up ramps to the leaning statues
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In the last dozen years, four of the 13 largest, and likely oldest, trees have died. Another five are ailing
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The diamond dust in protoplanetary discs may solve a decades-old astronomical mystery
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The Welsh fashion designer pioneered high street fashion, popularizing bright patterns, miniskirts and hot pants
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Archaeologists uncovered the enigmatic two-inch head at Abel Beth Maacah, site of an ancient crossroads
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