President Donald Trump suggested the federal government should take a direct role in administering elections in Michigan, claiming without evidence that local election systems are corrupt and poorly ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Kimberly Bradley is an arts writer who staves off winter doldrums by running long distances or obsessively knitting.

For 12,400 years, the cave’s arid air preserved two small scraps of elk hide stitched together with twisted fiber. These ...

Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden clump of dark matter near the Sun. Led by astrophysicist Sukanya Chakrabarti, the research ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Can we generate a way to interact with dark ...

Google released a Chrome security update fixing two high-severity flaws that could enable code execution or crashes via malicious websites.

That depends on who is looking, of course, though in the case of “Denver: The City and Its Art 1870-1970,” the beholder is ...

Exotic states of matter known as time crystals are largely considered a quantum phenomenon. Now, a team from New York University (NYU) has shown that a classical time crystal can emerge in a far ...

How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Take our hands, for example: Every time we type a ...

Seven pages of grand jury testimony from Richard Nixon were deemed so incendiary that they were hidden from the public for years.

A new study suggests humans can sense hidden objects without touching them, by detecting faint movements in sand. This unexpected form of “remote touch” challenges traditional ideas about how the ...