When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering ~humanities.history Article 4361 words 21 votes
Medieval gaming piece in soapstone with runic inscription discovered in Trondheim, Norway ~humanities.history Article 590 words, published Jun 20 2023 18 votes
Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn ~humanities.history Article 378 words 12 votes
Cosmic rays reveal 'hidden' thirty-foot-long corridor in Egypt's Great Pyramid ~humanities.history Article 824 words, published Mar 2 2023 8 votes
Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies that shouldn’t exist ~space astronomy Article 911 words 16 votes
World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing ~humanities.languages Article 476 words 9 votes
Archaeologists with the Nordjyske Museer in Denmark have found the remains of a large, thousand-year-old homestead, which they believe may have been a Viking hall ~humanities.history Article 299 words 6 votes
Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like two million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland ~science anthropology Article 784 words 4 votes
Scientists have discovered a new set of blood groups. The ‘Er’ grouping could help doctors identify and treat some rare cases of blood incompatibility, including between pregnant mothers and fetuses. ~health medicine Article 576 words, published Oct 4 2022 7 votes
Viking-era sword hilt found near grave of 'Gausel Queen' by amateur detectives – only twenty similar swords of this type have been found in Norway ~humanities.history Article 573 words 4 votes
'She's perfect and she's beautiful': Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields ~science Article 834 words 7 votes
Scientists discover a new method to break down plastics in less time ~enviro plastics recycling Article 9 votes
The dolphin clitoris is full of surprises, scientists discover ~science biology.marine Article 665 words 10 votes
Scientists just found a 'significant' volume of water inside Mars' grand canyon ~space Article 597 words 19 votes
Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept ~humanities.history Article 5829 words, published Nov 18 2021 6 votes
A new species of dinosaur with an unusually large nose has been identified by a retired GP who spent lockdown rummaging through boxes of hundreds of old bones ~science Article 335 words 7 votes
At 4/3rds the mass of the sun and 4300 kilometers across, astronomers discover the most massive and smallest White Dwarf yet ~space astronomy Article 746 words 9 votes
Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mapping—many for the first time ~humanities.history Link 5 votes
Netta Engelhardt discovered an escape from Hawking’s black hole paradox ~space Article 1634 words 7 votes
A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years ~humanities.history Article 321 words 8 votes
How we discovered a hidden world of fungi inside the world’s biggest seed bank ~science biology Article 8 votes
Scientists discover massive 'pipeline' in the cosmic web connecting the universe ~space astronomy Article 7 votes
Discoveries at the edge of the Periodic Table: First ever measurements of Einsteinium ~science chemistry physics Article 1115 words 8 votes
‘Milestone’ evidence for anyons, a third kingdom of particles ~science physics.quantum Article 14 votes
Scientists discover the first animal that doesn’t breathe oxygen to live ~science biology Article published Oct 17 2019 23 votes
The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare. ~humanities.history Article 8055 words 5 votes
Phosphine discovered in Venus' atmosphere, which could be evidence of microbial life ~space Article 1916 words 53 votes
Scientists detect first-of-its-kind "intermediate-mass" black hole as a result of most massive merger ever observed ~space Article 1455 words 8 votes
Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex ~humanities.history Article 1007 words 17 votes
Africa’s biggest collection of ancient human footprints has been found ~science anthropology Article 595 words, published May 14 2020 8 votes
Microbial life has been found deep in Earth's crust beneath the ocean floor ~science biology.micro Article 484 words 8 votes
Board-game piece from period of first Viking raid found on Lindisfarne – small glass crown thought to be rare archaeological link to raiders ~humanities.history Article 607 words 12 votes
Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, traveling at a blistering six million km/h, that was ejected by the supermassive black hole at the heart at the Milky Way five million years ago ~space astronomy Article 706 words 9 votes
Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway ~humanities.history Article 513 words, published Oct 10 2019 4 votes
Sea 'boiling' with methane discovered in Siberia: 'No one has ever recorded anything like this before' ~enviro climate change Article 537 words 22 votes
Archaeologists have confirmed a father-son duo discovered an Iron Age dwelling using metal detectors in Sievi, Finland ~hobbies Article 358 words 7 votes
Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than fifty years ~humanities.history Article 495 words 7 votes
Scientists have identified more than fifty new lakes of liquid water lying under the Greenland ice sheet ~science Article 666 words 9 votes
Boaty McBoatface makes major climate change discovery on maiden outing ~enviro climate change Article 134 words 14 votes
New species of ancient human discovered in Philippines cave ~humanities anthropology Article 699 words 15 votes
The general was female? ASU professor, colleague uncover 200-year-old mystery from the American Revolution ~humanities.history Article 1852 words 10 votes