Why do we race dragon boats and wrap sticky rice in large flat leaves every year? What ancient wisdom lies beneath the ...

1621: Sir Francis Bacon is imprisoned in the Tower of London for one night. 1659: The Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague. 1669: The last entry in Samuel Pepys’s diary.

Scientists find red blood cell-like structures in a dinosaur fossil, shedding light on cancer’s ancient origins.

On May 27, 2025, the Royal Navy's first Type 31 frigate, HMS Venturer, was rolled out from Babcock's Rosyth facility in ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology analyzed 279 trireme names recorded in 4th-century BCE ...

China deployed fleets larger than usual near Taiwan, the southern Japanese islands and the East and South China Seas.

A Tardigrade (AKA water bear) is an eight-legged segmented micro animal (Ref. Britanica). Italian biologist ‘Spallanzani’ ...

The curious minds at Aperture turn to ancient Stoic teachings to uncover strategies for staying grounded in chaotic times.

Imagine standing on one side of a large valley and being able to read a label on a bottle sitting on the opposite hill, ...

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.

Metal has begun to replace this distinctive latticework, which is seen on towers across the city. Daisy Pak, a rare female ...