
Funeral mask: A 2,000-year-old gold face covering designed to confuse the deceased's spirit so it didn't torment the living
This death mask is a spectacular example of goldwork from prehistoric Java, Indonesia.
Scientific discoveries and research
Physicists have put a decades-old idea about why the strange rules of quantum mechanics disappear in our everyday world...

The glacial collapse that killed 1,400 people in Nepal in August highlighted one epicenter for such disasters — but ther...
A sweeping review of more than 153,000 adults found that calcium and vitamin D supplements, alone or together, do little...

Archaeologists in Austria have analyzed a collection of 500 iron bars that were likely lost in a Danube shipwreck 2,200...
Common preservatives hiding in processed foods may carry unexpected heart risks, with heavy consumption linked to substa...
A decade-long NIST experiment has produced a new measurement of the universal gravitational constant that differs unexpe...

This week, NASA turned on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's powerful 300-megapixel camera for the first time. The...

