Great artists are said to pour all their energies onto the canvas, leaving them exhausted after a flurry of creativity.

The ruins of Ostia, an ancient Roman port, have never captured the public imagination in the same way as those of Pompeii, perhaps because Ostia met with a less cataclysmic fate.

Scientists say that studying the genes of mice will reveal new information about patterns of human migration.

An archaeological dig at a Roman fort in Sandwich has uncovered evidence of the Roman coastline - two miles inland from where it is today.

UCLA mathematicians appear to have won a $100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for discovering a 13-million-digit prime number that has long been sought by computer users.

Fascinating article on Neanderthals - scientists are finding they actively sought and ate sea creatures as well as land prey.

The electrodynamic explaination describes the creation of photons as the electromagnetic radiation,produced by the movements of the electron or proton(charged Particles),carrying their electrostatic fields..

PAISLEY, Ore. - For some 85 years, homesteaders, pot hunters, and archaeologists have been digging at Paisley Caves, a string of shallow depressions washed out of an ancient lava flow by the waves of a lake that comes and goes with the changing climate.

Black cats, broken mirrors; superstitions may seem silly, but, asks Sanjida O'Connell, could they be the secret of our survival?

The University of Southampton is launching the world's largest-ever study of near-death experiences this week.