See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An astrophysicist has shed new light on how the ancient Egyptians ...

Nautiloids—a lineage of ancient, externally-shelled cephalopods that diverged from their octopus and squid relatives over 400 million years ago—once dominated our oceans. Today, this living fossil is ...

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we now experience. There were no forests and no animals. For ancient ...

A 2,200-year-old Roman Republic shipwreck off Croatia has provided rare insight into ancient naval engineering, thanks to preserved waterproofing layers containing resin, tar, beeswax, and pollen.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have been studying the Clarkia site for nearly five decades. Robert Patalano Does life exist elsewhere in the universe?

The origins of all modern humans may lie in a rocky geological depression in East Africa. The dusty landscape, shaped by the passage of time and erosion, even resembles formations found on Mars. But ...

Poets and writers have woven emotional tales throughout history. Often, we writers describe emotions through body parts. Our hearts ache when we experience unrequited love. We get butterflies in our ...

Does life exist elsewhere in the universe? If so, how do scientists search for and identify it? Finding life beyond Earth is extremely difficult, partly because other planets are so far away and ...