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A 12th-century sword spotted jutting out of the seabed in Israel was designed for one-handed combat during the Crusades.

With potential safety improvements and lower manufacturing costs, Na-ion batteries are coming of age at precisely the right time.

Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that different from us.

The experimental manufacturing process could one day deliver a vehicle with a 1,000-plus mile range, researchers say.

Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out why.

Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward Earth from 8 billion light-years away and was spotted thanks to a weird space-time trick first predicted by Einstein.

Detached orca fins scored with distinctive tooth marks suggest that killer whale cannibalism is happening — and it might explain some complex orca societies.

NASA's Artemis II is on track to shoot for the moon in April after engineers fixed the helium issue that grounded the mission's rocket last month.

Researchers have revealed that North American birds are declining at an accelerating rate in three regional hotspots associated with intense agriculture.

Agriculture in India is under threat from extreme weather events linked to climate change. We speak to Meha Jain, an associate professor of geospatial data sciences, food systems at the University of Michigan, who has spent nearly 20 years working with farmers in India to understand the threats they are…

The portable computing powerhouse is capable of running 120-billion-parameter LLMs, roughly three times larger than GPT-3, without needing to access the internet or the cloud.