Archaeology & Ancient History

Warrior Nun may get back in the habit

After years of attempts, Netflix’s cancelled action series about a demon-slaying woman of God, Warrior Nun, may find itself a new convent. Years after…

5 Times Godzilla and King Ghidorah Threw Down in Movies, And Who Won Each Battle

Image Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures King Ghidorah is about to become Godzilla’s problem again. Toho’s Godzilla Minus Zero, the sequel to the Oscar…

On this day in space! Sept. 10, 2011: NASA launches GRAIL probes to the moon to map lumpy lunar gravity

On Sept. 10, 2011, NASA's GRAIL spacecraft launched on a mission to the moon! Here's why the moon gravity mapping mission mattered. On Sept. 10, 2011,…

Nicole Kidman Movies and Series Ranked by Tomatometer

A definitive list of the best Nicole Kidman movies and the worst, ranked by Tomatometer. Nicole Kidman Movies and Series Ranked by Tomatometer The Lat…

August was hottest month ever recorded worldwide, European climate monitor says

El Niño pattern that triggered extremes expected to peak in 2027, but scientist warns that 'record-shattering months will simply keep on coming' as lo…

Black Holes and Revel-AI-tions - Meta's new personal AI agent accused of stealing social media handles from top British band Muse

The tale of who owns @Muse - and how, continues to rumble on. Meta launches Muse personal AI agent - and seemingly takes social media accounts tooBrit…

Ancient Tombs, Untouched by Looters, Are Found Under Peru’s Sands

One archaeologist called the tombs “the discovery of the decade” as the first burials from the Chimu kingdom to have escaped centuries of plunder.

Wolverine Only Aims As High As Its Stout Hero

A few hours into Wolverine I found myself asking, “Why did Insomniac Games make this?” There are obvious answers, of course: It has three excellent Sp…

Exquisite 66-million-year-old bird feather preserved in dinosaur dropping

Apple’s open-ear AirPods 4 just hit $99 — and they finally wont slip out of your ears mid-workout

Score Apple’s new AirPods 4 on Amazon for $99 (down from $129). It features a refined ergonomic fit, H2 chip, USB-C case, IP54 rating, and hands-free …

Archaeologists Uncover a Neolithic Sculpture of a Human Riding a Leopard That's 'Unlike Anything We Have Encountered Before'

The artifact was found during excavations at Karahan Tepe, an 11,000-year-old site in southeastern Turkey. Created long before the invention of writin…

Developer uses Claude to vibe code a Windows 3.1 shell in an hour — reanimated 12MB retro launcher runs on both Windows 11 and Apple Silicon

There’s a new vibe-coded clone of the Windows 3.1 Program Manager that runs on modern Windows 11 or macOS systems. If you are yearning for a quick-sho…

The AI writing debate is eerily similar to the one that rocked ancient Greece 2,700 years ago

Theater scholar Drew Lichtenberg explained the backlash to Euripides, a playwright that people found "creepy and scary, the way people do with AI." Th…

August was the joint hottest month on record

This 'impossible' black hole merger may be explained by a warp in spacetime

A "forbidden" merger between two black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. New research that suggests the black holes i…

To Researchers' Surprise, This Giant Dinosaur Laid Eggs in a Cold Climate

A new study suggests that titanosaurs used rotting vegetation to keep their eggs warm much like crocodiles do today

Indonesian foragers may have sucked on mind-altering nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds

Analysis of two skeletons reveals tooth wear and traces of psychoactive substance in what may be earliest known evidence for human drug takingWhat may…

World's oldest evidence of habitual drug use traced back 25,000 years to Indonesia

Hunter-gatherers from the last ice age sucked on betel nuts to soothe their toothaches, a new study reveals. The world's oldest known habitual drug us…

Enigmatic Denisovans lived by cave in what is now China for 100,000 years, rare fossils and handcrafted tools reveal

Anthropologists have discovered the first-ever Denisovan arm bone in a cave in southwest China, which also held thousands of prehistoric animal bones …

Bayeux Tapestry on display in London after nearly 1,000 years

A priceless art piece has left France to go on display temporarily in England after nearly 1,000 years. The Bayeux Tapestry is a 230-foot-long piece o…

The moon may have formed in just 5 hours, new simulations suggest

Novel simulations that reassessed the ancient collision between Earth and the protoplanet Theia suggest that the moon could have emerged from the afte…

Streaming from the cloud was meant to change games forever – what happened?

Once hailed as the future, even the likes of Google, Sony and Microsoft have struggled to make streaming games fun, fast or affordable• Don’t get Push…

A photon from the biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang appears to have defied Einstein. Scientists may finally know how

A photon from the biggest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang, the gamma-ray burst nicknamed "the BOAT," should not have reached Earth, according to E…

'Drops in the ocean can make waves': How the grassroots climate movement took off in the US

In this excerpt from "The Carbon Wave," author Leah Stokes explores the lead-up to that moment and the wave of environmental action that followed. In …

30 Most Popular Movies Right Now: What to Watch In Theaters and Streaming

See what films are buzzing with RT users this week! 30 Most Popular Movies Right Now: What to Watch In Theaters and Streaming Discover the top, most p…