This is What the First Home Pregnancy Test Looked Like
“Predictor” gave results in just two hours
A 19th Century Shipwreck Might Be Why This Famous Female Naturalist Faded to Obscurity
Jeanne Villepreux-Power invented the aquarium and studied cephalopods, but today few recognize her name
Here Are Some of the Weird Ways You Could Die in Tudor England
Pole vaulting and bacon are among the odd causes of death discovered by historians
Archivists Uncover an Unfinished Memoir By Orson Welles
Fragments of “Confessions of a One-Man Band” discovered in a newly-acquired trove of documents
Scientists Just Mummified a Human Leg to Test Ancient Egyptian Techniques
It took 208 days for Swiss scientists to mummify a fresh leg using natron
What Was Life Like for a Girl in the Bronze Age?
Analysis of a 3,400-year-old burial traces the life story of a Bronze Age female
Pac-Man Turns 35 This Month
The now-iconic game was originally released by Namco in 1980
As Glaciers Retreat, They Give up the Bodies and Artifacts They Swallowed
Around the world global warming is exposing bodies lost in glaciers
Ancient Carnivores Had a Taste for Neanderthal Meat
Researchers link bite marks on a Neanderthal skull to the fangs of an ancient big cat
Cyber-archeology May be the Way to Remember Artifacts Destroyed by Militants
Digitally saving 3D models is the only way to offset some lost cultural artifacts
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Once Helped Clear an Innocent Man of Murder
On his birthday, revist the mystery author’s most famous case
Humans May Have Domesticated Dogs Tens of Thousands of Years Earlier Than Thought
Genetic analysis from an ancient wolf show just how complicated dog evolution was
Vikings Didn’t Just Raid, They Traded Too
Reindeer artifacts found at Medieval market sites suggest the famed raiders tried the merchant thing first
Jerusalem is Running Out of Room for the Dead
A new project looks to save space by building modern catacombs
This 1,500-Year-Old Skeleton May Belong to the Man That Brought Leprosy to Britain
Modern techniques show that the young man was in his 20s and likely Scandinavian
Mysterious Shipwreck Reveals how the Spanish Built Their Boats
Search for Captain Morgan’s fleet turns up treasure trove of Spanish cargo
Science on a Shoestring: How Cuba’s Researchers Survived the Embargo
Will normalized U.S.-Cuban relations make science easier in the once-isolated country?
How Do You Figure out Where the Very Center of the United States Is?
Three different places have laid claim to the title since 1901.
A Third of Animal Mummies Contain no Animals at All
Researchers discover ancient Egyptians peddled fake animal mummies.
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