History

Paleontology is rife with fake fossils that are made to cash in on illegal trade but end up interfering with science

Without adding an extra day to February every four years, our calendar would get increasingly out of sync with the cosmos

The origin of the decimal point, a powerful calculation tool, has been traced back to a mathematician who lived during the Italian Renaissance

Lost in today’s misinformation fights is the recognition that modern conspiracy theories spring from excesses of state secrecy

Curious dinosaur eggs discovered; element 72 named

Changes in the climate may have caused disruptions to Roman society that manifested as disease outbreaks, researchers have found

Ancient DNA recovered from Brazilian remains shows that syphilis and other treponemal diseases originated some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought

The ancestral Maya lived in better harmony with the environment and kept water clean naturally. We can learn from them

Sleep potion; top speed limits

The holiday fruitcake is a timeless dessert—literally

“Woolly dogs” that were kept by the Coast Salish peoples are now extinct, but researchers were able to see their importance written in the genome of the only known pelt

Black hole sun; the deepest mine